The Leinster Senior Cup was one of the big days out in the Leinster season. The cup exists in a very different format now but in yesteryears, it was a closed date, on the Saturday of the August Bank holiday.

The closed date meant that it was a well-supported day and not just by the competing clubs. Thirty years ago, a long distant past too many, YMCA took on Clontarf in a high scoring game in Phoenix.

It was the third time the teams had met in recent years with bruising defeats for Clontarf in 87 and 89. It would be nice if memories came like a movie, a feature length version that we could play at will, at a time of our choosing.

More often they come as a series of snapshots, a long lost roll of film. Out of order and many out of focus but each one a part of the story. Cup Final 1992 is one of those rolls of film.

A dusty collection of memories when pieced together tell a story of a Cup win, long sought after by a club in thrall to the Cup but which had not been won since 1969.

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