On July 12, 2009, Dublin played Kildare in the Leinster final. I had been on the Dublin panel for two years and I had no doubt about the meaning and significance of the game. If Dublin won, they would claim their fifth Leinster title in a row. Yet not many considered it a formality. There were 74,573 people in Croke Park that day for a game that is as memorable as any I’ve played in my career. Kieran McGeeney was managing Kildare and, as you would expect, his side played with an aggression we had no hesitation in matching.  The…

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