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Monaghan show Dubs are only human in fascinating league opener

The visitors to Croke Park started as they mean to go on against Dessie Farrell's All-Ireland champions. 
Monaghan show Dubs are only human in fascinating league opener

BOTTLED UP: Dublin’s Lee Gannon with Michael Hamill and Darragh Treanor of Monaghan. Picture: INPHO/Ryan Byrne

DUBLIN 1-14 MONAGHAN 3-9

“I’m only human, after all,” decried Rag ’n’ Bone Man on the Croke Park PA system. As Brian Fenton made one of those infrequent errors which precipitated the break for Monaghan’s winning point, the lyrics couldn’t have been more apt.

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