Winning a Leinster title and playing Division one football still Durnin's Louth goal

With Dublin on the opposite side of this season's provincial draw, a third Leinster final appearance in a row, something Louth has only ever done once before, between 1912 and 1914, is a live possibility.

LEINSTER TITLE. Louth's Tommy Durnin goal for Louth is to win a Leinster title and play Division one football. Pic: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

One and done. That was the story of Tommy Durnin's 2020 Leinster SFC campaign with Louth, a wretched November afternoon of wind and rain ending with a truly miserable loss to Longford.

Structures being what they were in covid times, there was no second chance. And so Sam Mulroy, who struck all 1-7 of Louth's tally in that game, was the county's only scorer in the 2020 Championship.