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Maurice Brosnan: Don't try to understand Munster final madness — just feel it

Dingle’s dramatic win over St Finbarr’s in an electrifying Munster final delivered chaos, emotion and one of the great modern GAA spectacles
Maurice Brosnan: Don't try to understand Munster final madness — just feel it

Conor Geaney scored a winning two-point free for Dingle against St Finbarr's in the Munster Club SFC final. Pic: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Howl. In the final fervour of an enthralling Munster final, the only instinct left for so many on Semple Stadium’s sacred field was to look to the sky and detonate.

Sam Ryan stands clutching the ball in disbelief. Conor Geaney disappears in a sea of ecstatic team-mates. So many hands are on heads in the stand. Uniting them all is an inability to process what just happened. Yet they quickly find themselves world apart.

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