James McCarthy hails his ninth All-Ireland title as the most special he has ever won
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The game turned on a Paddy Small goal for Dublin 10 minutes after half-time. Though Dublin had been the better side in the first half, Kerry got in for a sucker-punch goal through Paul Geaney just before the break. It seemed to settle them and they built on it after the restart, forging three points ahead, the biggest lead in the game.
But when Colm Basquel pounced on a short pass by Gavin White to send Small away, his deflected finish hauled Kerry in and stopped their momentum. Even after Kerry scored the next three points to wipe out the goal, Dublin dominated the rest of the game. They couldn’t quite shake Kerry off until Mannion, fittingly, pushed them into the decisive lead in injury time.
“We kept at it and persevered and showed the character that we knew was in the group,” said Farrell of his team. “We spoke about that a lot this year about character and what it actually means. We identified the characteristics and the traits that were going to be really important to us and we hammered in on those. At the end of the day, it was that type of character that was shown when it mattered most.
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