O'Donoghue man of the match and TSG player of the season
Ryan O'Donoghue has been named man of the match and player of the season following Mayo's All-Ireland Senior Football Championship victory. The win marks a historic end to a 75-year championship drought for the team.
Why it matters
The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship is the pinnacle of Gaelic games, and this victory holds significant cultural importance for the region.
No tomorrow, no yesterday, just the here and now and the afterglow of Mayo's magnificent achievement in ending a 75-year famine to become All-Ireland Senior Football Champions again .
How they suffered down the years; now they can host the mother of all parties in the erstwhile named House of Pain. No one deserves it more.
It will hardly come as any surprise that Ryan O'Donoghue has been named as the All-Ireland final man of the match and The Sunday Game player of the season.
The commentators on Midwest Radio, in the throes of delirium as they called the magic moments following the final whistle of their 1-20 to 1-17 win over Kerry, declared it a done deal. Who could argue.
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