Shipping up from Boston: Dublin star Paul Mannion returned because he 'owed it to the lads'

'I couldn’t keep watching on in good conscience,' said the All-Ireland final man of the match.

COMEBACK KID: Paul Mannion poses for a photo with the Sam Maguire Cup. Picture: INPHO/Tom Maher

Boston, July 10 2022 circa 1pm eastern daylight time. In a Donegal Boston team-mate’s house, Paul Mannion is watching his Dublin go down in dramatic fashion to Kerry in an All-Ireland semi-final.

Only three weeks earlier, he had insisted to the press that he had drawn a line under his inter-county career but something in the way the county lose that game to Seán O’Shea’s booming free kick changes his mind.