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Tempers flare in the Super 8s encounter in Castlebar back in 2019
It wasn't pretty but Donegal got the job done against Mayo in the 1992 All-Ireland semi-final
August, 1992
All-Ireland semi-final
Donegal 0-13:0-9 Mayo
This one might not have turned ‘ugly’ in the physical sense but, at the time, it was a spectacle that drew serious ridicule from TV pundits and, as it was revealed at the time, the watching Dublin management and players in the stands.
33 years ago, Donegal lifted the Sam Maguire for the first time ever as Anthony Molloy famously declared that “Sam was for the Hills” as they spectacularly toppled the Dubs in the final.
But in his match report after that semi-final in The Irish Times, journalist Paddy Downey described Donegal’s 1992 clash with Mayo as “the poorest ever played.”
The Dubs were in the crowd that same day and legend has it, they left at the three-quarter hour mark with one confident player quoted as saying: “We’d beat the pick of those two in the final”.
Donegal, though, had other ideas as they lifted matters considerably in the decider to comfortably prevail 0-18 to 0-14.
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