Paul Curran is telling the story of Dublin’s first league match in Division 2, after being relegated the season before, and still winning the 1995 All-Ireland in between. It was against Leitrim, in Carrick-on-Shannon, and Dublin lost.
“And we never came back, really,” says Curran. “Whether that was the start of the decline of that team, I don’t know. But it certainly didn’t help losing that game, in Division 2. And we know what happened in the years after that.”

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