Donegal won their second All-Ireland Football Championship title in a wave of emotion at Croke Park, beating Mayo 2-11 to 0-13. Forwards Michael Murphy and Colm McFadden hit 1-04 each as the Ulster champions piled more final agony on Mayo. Early goals from Murphy and McFadden had Donegal seven points clear, but three Cillian O’Connor points narrowed the gap to three (2-04 to 0-07), at the break. O’Connor and Enda Varley kept Mayo in touch, but they held on to claim the Sam Maguire. A crowd of 82,269 watched Jim McGuinness's side silence the critics who had lambasted their defensive strategy last season, and lift Gaelic football’s richest prize, 20 years after the county won a maiden title.