Mick Bohan basking in the glory of unexpected triumph

Dublin manager Mick Bohan hailed his charges for the manner in which they put a championship-winning side together after making a host of changes on and off the park last autumn.

Bohan said winning an All-Ireland was not on their radar when they started plotting 2023 and that's what makes this success so sweet.

They held control throughout an entertaining contest at Croke Park and Bohan said the display delivered by the Dublin players meant they are thoroughly deserved TG4 All-Ireland senior champions for 2023.

"Incredible. I thought their work-rate was immense. We’d obviously been on the receiving end twice from Kerry and we know how good they are. The work this group has done, we had no choice," he said.

"We were on our knees back in October/November time. When you win something, people kind of dismiss that a little bit. If you knew where we were and we were trying to maximise everything we had. Genuinely, the group will tell you this, we were just trying to make this thing competitive.

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"We didn’t foresee this. There is a little bit of knowledge around the scenes in this camp. The likes of Frankie Roebuck and Seaghan Kearney, Paul Casey and Derek Murray. Guys who have soldiered with the lads’ teams. That bit of knowledge and as Frankie kept telling me all year, you don’t have to have the best deck to win the card game.

"Sami Dowling came in with us this year as an S&C and he’s brought a completely new level to it. We’ve seen that in all of the sessions, they just worked their backsides off. That is obviously the most important trait in sport, regardless of