Brian Fenton still doesn't know what it feels like to lose a championship game with Dublin.

The Raheny midfielder has played in seven All-Ireland finals since 2015, including replays in 2016 and '19, and has always managed to avoid defeat.

"It’s magic!" he told RTÉ after winning his fifth All-Ireland medal in as many years last night.

"You’re so wrecked after the game and you’re trying to drink water, protein shakes and whatever, but it’s special. We always play Van Morrison, Days Like This, in the dressing room and that’s one of the moments during the year when there are dark times, there’s a video and you watch it back. That gets you through the darker days earlier in the year.

"It’s for magic moments like that, it’s unbelievable."

Fenton continued: "It has been an incredible year. To be part of this, to play after personally a disappointing game in the draw, to come back and to play my part today was off the charts.

"It feels quite unbelievable, spectacular and that’s probably the answer we’re all giving. It didn’t look likely the last day, the position we put ourselves in a man down, but we dug deep, worked hard and we were blessed, really, to have another crack at it.

"To play that way today and to create history that was always the elephant in the room, we knew it was there and we tried to block it out as best we could, to achieve that playing with these bunch of men, playing for Jim (Gavin, manager) is just off the charts."

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