Five moments that summed up the monster that is Lee Keegan
1 October 2016; Diarmuid Connolly of Dublin and Lee Keegan of Mayo tussle during the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Final Replay match between Dublin and Mayo at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile
In the oncoming wave of tributes, some will reference the fact Lee Keegan lost six All-Ireland finals like an anchor around his neck. To define such a remarkable career by those simplistic terms would be a travesty.
For those dim minds, sport can be boiled down to winners and losers. Them and us. It lowers Mayo’s greatest to the same level as everyone without a Celtic Cross. Such a diminishing is farcical. Keegan was on a different stratosphere to the majority. A refusal to accept mediocrity was his calling card.
