Parnell Park hosted Dublin GAA’s version of the Late Late Show on a Sunday of remarkable injury-time plot twists – culminating in the fall of the 2025 All-Ireland senior football champions, Cuala.
Several Cuala players collapsed to the ground at the final whistle while others just stood there, utterly frozen to the spot. Shell-shocked, to a man.
The Dalkey outfit led Ballyboden St Enda’s by seven points with five minutes of normal time remaining in their Dublin SFC semi-final. Some folk had already started to trickle out of the ground. The wind had eased off. The day was done.
But Ballyboden conjured up a quite astonishing comeback to score 2-3 without reply, 1-2 of that coming in injury-time, to stun the defending champions, 3-21 to 2-22.
The first time Ballyboden led all afternoon was when Daire Sweeney netted a 62nd-minute goal – the last score of
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