Colm Keys: Leaner times on the horizon for Dubs with inevitable changing of their guard ahead
Dublin goalkeeper Stephen Cluxton shakes hands with an umpire after his side's defeat to Galway. Photo: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile
When is the right to cut and go? The temptation to turn back one last time will always be powerful for those for whom success, whether in sport, politics or life in general, was what kept them there for so long in the first place.
In the Croke Park media interview room after the All-Ireland SFC final last year, the Dublin captain James McCarthy, sipping a pint of Guinness, suggested it wasn’t a “bad way to wrap it up.” You know the story.
