Cuala have risen to the top after challenging years

Luke Keating laughed when Cuala were installed as Leinster and All-Ireland SFC favourites. "Before this year we had never got through a quarter-final in Dublin!"

Leinster GAA Senior Football Club Championship Semi-Final, Parnell Park, Dublin 23/11/2024

Cursed? Luke Keating wouldn't go that far but it did feel for a while like something, or someone, was conspiring against Cuala.

Take 2017, for example, when the senior footballers went as far as the club had ever done in the Championship and contested a quarter-final.