"So if we hadn't been successful in helping Dublin, if we hadn't backed them and they slipped further, we would have been absolutely lambasted for that. Not when the average age of the Dublin team on the night, minus Stephen Cluxton, was just over 26 and a half years. "In some ways, it was a victim of its own success," O'Neill explains. It's now over a decade since another Leinster team has appeared in an All-Ireland semi-final, Kieran McGeeney's Kildare in 2010. You have to try new things," O'Neill stresses.

Source: The Herald November 24, 2020 02:26 UTC