Tomorrow, I will attend a Mayo-Dublin game at Croke Park as a supporter for the first time since the 2006 All-Ireland semi-final.
That was an amazing occasion and a number of things stayed with me from that day, particularly the noise from Hill 16, ‘come on you boys in blue’ and all that.
Having won an under-21 All-Ireland only a few months before, I felt that these occasions weren’t far away, but my senior career was stop-start and Mayo and Dublin were like ships in the night until the 2012 semi-final.