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Tempers flare in the Super 8s encounter in Castlebar back in 2019
Lee Keegan admits he quickly realised he'd bitten off more than he could chew with Kevin Cassidy
March 2012, Swinford
Inter-county challenge
Donegal 1-14:3-7 Mayo
Some say the taste between Donegal any Mayo completely soured on a September Sunday in 2012. Others can rewind the clock back a further four months.
Donegal and Mayo met in a challenge game at Swinford in May 2012. That March, Donegal dismantled Mayo when winning a League game in Ballyshannon 0-17 to 1-7.
James Horan, later in the year, argued that observers at Fr Tierney Park had ‘lost the plot’ in assessing the meaning of that game.
In Swinford, though, Donegal were keen to lay down another marker. Colm McFadden’s 1-5 meant that Donegal won 1-14 to 3-7 – having been six points behind in the first half – and the feelings were never the same.
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