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On that day in 1996 when Galway won that long-awaited first senior camogie title and the team celebrated to the praise of hordes of young fans who made the long journey up in the days before we had motorways, who would have guessed that the excitement of that occasion would impact so greatly on the mind of one young girl who had travelled to the capital with a busload of her friends.

All roads to ending 70 years of hurt lead to Croke Park tomorrow evening.

There is just one glittering medal left for Stephen Coen to add to the collection.

Former Tyrone player Colm Cavanagh thinks that this year his county are finally playing with the handbrake off and with a lack of fear of making mistakes - and that could be key to them seeing off Mayo on Saturday.

Croke Park on All-Ireland final day. There is not many places a Gaelic Football fan would prefer to be. Whether it is in August, September or even December of any given year, the GAA fan will always want to be in attendance.

It all started for Seamus O'Shea in the green and red in a senior jersey on a wintry Sunday afternoon in Ballinrobe in January 2008 - the eldest of the O'Shea brothers got his first game time for Mayo as a senior as sub against NUIG in the FBD League that day.

Just sit back and take in everything that happens in the first 90 seconds once the ball is thrown in on Saturday night; that's the advice of former Mayo captain Andy Moran.

At the end of the Mayo-Dublin All-Ireland semi-final five weeks ago, as the ‘Green and Red of Mayo’ boomed out over the loudspeakers, the chorus reverberated around the ground like a war-cry signalling the end of the most hurtful oppression imaginable at the hands of Dublin for over a decade.

Nobody knows better than Mayo supporters that anything can happen once the ball is thrown in on All Ireland Senior Final day; two own goals in the first half, the ball bouncing off the ground and spinning up and over the bar, our most important player sent off after playing a minimal part in a mass brawl - all things Mayo fans can remember vividly.

I had a dream two weeks ago, that Mayo won the 2021 All-Ireland football final. It was a joyous but weird dream.