Connacht GAA is undergoing an awakening, writes Ciarán Murphy (via IrishTimesSport)
Anthony Finnerty got one goal in the 1989 final, and missed another, as Mayo went down bravely to Cork. These were the failures that were remembered. Far more depressing were the semi-final defeats that were just seen as a matter of course, games that provincial champions never looked capable of winning, and promptly didn’t.
It took the return of Down, never a team short on confidence, to finally break the hegemony in 1991. Not alone did they become the first team from Connacht or Ulster to beat a Leinster or Munster team in the All-Ireland series since 1973, but they beat both Kerry and Meath on their way to winning the All-Ireland – an achievement which perhaps doesn’t get the credit it deserves when taken out of that context.
The presence of three Division One teams on the same side of the Connacht championship draw gives the Mayo/Roscommon game plenty of spice this weekend, but there are two other quarterfinals happening this week too.
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