Two superpowers meet in the county final, with Cuala bidding for their first ever title.
Declan Bogue IN 2011, ONCE the 16-year famine was over for the Dublin footballers, the team were being hosted for a homecoming in Merrion Square.
We’ll entertain a couple. On commentary duty for Sunday’s senior semi-final between Kilmacud Crokes and Na Fianna, was the hurling coach and journalist, Shane Stapleton. After Kilmacud’s victory, he referenced a previous hurling final between the clubs, labelled at the time as the ‘Clash of the Cash.’
In Cuala, their football journey has been more painstaking. They reached a county final in 1988 and were beaten by Parnells. They have Mick Fitzsimons at the back, by now a stately institution of the full-back line. They have the totemic Peader O’Cofaigh Byrne and Peter Duffy at midfield – a statuesque department indeed.
So who have we got with Kilmacud Crokes? Well, there is a remarkable resemblance to the side that they beat in the 2023 All-Ireland final and to whom they lost the All-Ireland semi-final nine months ago to Derry’s Glen. Interviewed after the semi final, he used language like, ‘scraped over the line’ and referenced a ‘twenty minute collapse’.
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