From defence Lee Keegan has scored in five of the seven All-Ireland finals (2-4) he has now played. He's one of the game's great warriors-players. Incredible leadership in adversity.
Colm Keys
2,821 posts
- Kilmacud Crokes membership is around 4,800, Mullinalaghta's is 155. The contrast on that basis alone for a provincial final is unique.
- Two Irish 'Open' winners now whose fathers played in All-Ireland football finals, Paddy Harrington (Cork 1956,57) and Brendan Lowry (1981,'82). Some sporting symmetry.
- What Mick O'Dwyer achieved with Wicklow has to be up there with everything else he did. On three successive July 2009 Saturdays in Aughrim, they beat three Ulster teams - Fermanagh, Cavan and Down. And never used a sub! RIP.
- 30th competitive game today for David Clifford in 2022 across six different competitions. A staggering 18-143 scored.Thirty games and counting as Kerry talisman David Clifford hunts for more success in 2022 as Fossa meet Listry buff.ly/3hGc4I4
- David Clifford's 2022/2023 season ends with 20-187 from 34 games with county, club, district, college. Don't expect he'll see much league action now.
- The coronation complete for David Clifford. A second All-Ireland medal and a third 'footballer of the year' award now awaits in four years. 8-62 in the championship.
- 16,616 in Croke Park for Tailteann Cup semi-finals. 16,485 for last week's fourth round qualifiers.
- Cian O'Neill makes an All Ireland final as coach/trainer to a fourth different county team - Tipp hurlers (2009, 2010), Mayo (2012) and Kerry (2014, 2015) footballers and now Galway.
- Ciaran Kilkenny scored 2-18 in the league, 2-24 in the c'ship (4-42 in all) and performed the role as Dublin's creator-in-chief. Outstanding season and the strongest candidate for 'footballer of the year.'
- The great sod of Nowlan Park hasn't been contaminated with a 40-metre arc just yet!!
- Derry beating three Division 1 teams in Ulster has to be one of the best ever provincial championship wins. So well planned and plotted.
- John Conlon, 35 years old, played almost 100 minutes of an epic All-Ireland hurling final marking two of the fastest about, Shane Barrett and Darragh Fitzgibbon, and didn't yield. Magnificent in extra-time. Outstanding leadership from Clare's 2013 quartet at different times.
- Hard to recall a more heroic defensive performance in an All-Ireland final than Chris Barrett's today. Four critical turnovers.
