Glen go one better with dramatic win over St Brigid's in All-Ireland final.

Glen's painful memories from last year's All-Ireland final were expunged as the Derry and Ulster champions found a way to retrieve what looked like a lost cause against St Brigid's of Roscommon, with Conor Glass' late goal the decisive score.

Glen’s edge in terms of experience was a prominent talking point in the week leading up to this final, before Storm Isha took over at the centre of conversations as the weekend drew in.

St Brigid’s seemed to pay no heed to either issue as they settled into this game the very same as if they were playing a league match at their home ground of Kiltoom, moving the ball around slickly and looking to control the game through accurate passing and relentless movement and energy.

As predicted, Glen’s control of the midfield battle was unmistakable, and a brace of early scores from Emmett Bradley gave the Ulster champions a narrow 0-02 to 0-01 lead with 10 minutes gone, but St Brigid’s were unperturbed and when they started bringing Ben O’Carroll into the game, the elusive inside forward quickly started to cause huge headaches for the northerners.

Accuracy was also the friend of the Roscommon men, as their first eight shots for points all found the target. Brian Stack, Eddie Nolan and Ruaidhrí Fallon all strode forward to kick majestic scores, but it could have been so much more.

Tiarnan Flanagan made an outstanding block to deny Robbie Dolan a goal chance, while Connlan Bradley saved a one-on-one chance that Ben O’Carroll placed far too close to the Glen custodian.

Still, at 0-08 to 0-04 with half-time looming, everything was going according to plan for the underdogs, until in the blink of an eye, Glen made up the gap completely.

A slick team move ended with Jody McDermott taking a pass from Danny