It is just after 9.30 pm, outside the Press Box in Ballybofey, and the whole of Glenties seems to have massed in front of the presentation area on a mild October night.
It is like a blue dam has burst, releasing all the hurt and pain of two successive county final defeats.
And by God, Naomh Conaill were not going to allow that hat-trick to happen…. ever.
Brendan McDyer is there too, a small, neat tidy almost elfin figure, and when you look at him it is hard to believe that this outstandingly-gifted forward has just won his fourth county medal.
The only hint of the ageing process is a few grey flecks in the hair of a most youthful, calm and courteous of men.
He is now 33 but he was a fresh-faced 18-year-old when he and comrades like Leo McLoone, Anthony Thompson, Marty Boyle, Aaron Thompson, Dara Gallagher and Eoin Waide beat a highly-fancied St Eunan’s side after a replay.
Everyone thought that this very youthful team had blown their chance in the first drawn game, but they proved us all wrong.
And there were parallels with Wednesday’s night’s great victory as virtually nobody gave them a chance in Donegal either with a local paper’s jury voting 12-0 in favour of the reigning Ulster champions.
But that attitude prevailed right through all three games, which must have made that eventual victory all the sweeter for McDyer and his comrades.
The rightly ignored all the hype, kept faith with their game plan and themselves and their absolutely brilliant defence swallowed up the much vaunted Gaoth Dobhair attack and they were really much better than a controversial one-point victory which some believed to be wide.
“Yes, it was great back in 2005 and nobody gave us a chance that time either but we were very young and had a great mentor in Jim McGuinness and did not fear anything,'' he said.
“That 2005 team brought forward a younger generation who were at that match and are now on the team.
“It is hard to believe that I now have four county championships and of course we won titles in 2010 and 2015 and were in four of the last five finals.”
This will be McDyer’s fourth foray into provincial championships and he and Glenties were very successful in 2010 when they just lost out to a great Crossmaglen team in the Ulster final, after leading at the break.
“Crossmaglen were a great team and they were All-Ireland champions and deservedly so and we came back in 2015 and won another county championship,'' he added.
“We came good in the second half of that game against St Eunan’s, Leo McLoone was outstanding, it was a great team effort.
“But all our finals we have been underdogs which has suited us fine.”
So did it hurt when this proud club who have easily been the most consistent side in the county since 2010 that they were constantly being ‘disrespected'?
“To be honest no because we never pay any attention to the media anyway,'' stated McDyer.
“We just go down and go about our business and we train hard and we work hard and that’s is our main objective”.
And behind veterans like McDyer there are powerful younger figures like Wednesday night’s man of the match Ethan O’Donnell, Eoghan McGettigan, Charles McGuinness, Kieran Gallagher, Jeaic MacCeallbhui and 17-year-old Nathan Byrne.
“The future is bright, these lads are always in the gym and they work very hard and they are not bothered about what people say,'' he said.
“They just want to get on with it.”
When asked if he knew anything about Cavan champions Catslerahan, he admitted: 'Not a bit' and who could blame him in a sense, such has been the overarching intensity of three huge battles against the reigning Donegal and Ulster champions.
“But we would like to go ahead in Ulster,'' he added.
“We will enjoy tonight, Thursday and probably Friday and the focus on what we have to do on Sunday.
“No but we will go at Ulster next.
“Gaoth Dobhair set the standard last year and gave everyone in the county great belief.
“They planted the seed in everybody’s head in Donegal that football in our county is in a great position.
“And that is what where you want to be.
“If we can get over Castlerahan the momentum will then be building for us.”
Some were suggesting that whoever won that third, gruelling replay should ask the Ulster Council to put the game back a week.
But McDyer says that this would be the height of disrespect to Castlerahan: “No that would not be fair at all on Castlerahan as they have played out their county championship in good faith and are waiting to play the Donegal county champions.
“It is not their fault that we had three matches so we will focus on that test over the weekend and we won’t be complaining about too many games taking a toll on us.
“You have to give Castlerahan respect and we have no difficulty in lining out on Sunday.”
And one great strength Glenties have going into Sunday’s match is the strength of their bench.
That was amply shown on Friday night when John O’Malley came on and kicked that much-talked-about winning point along with All-Ireland medallist with Donegal one Dermot “Brick” Molloy.
They also have the vastly experienced Marty Boyle, who started, came off and came back on, a la Peter Canavan, when he was needed.
And they have the likes of Seamus Corcoran, Dara Gallagher and Nathan Byrne as more powerful options.
He added: “We are a proud club and the records prove that.
“Quite often we don’t get the shout or the plaudits we deserve.
“Some people say we are a defensive team but that is a bit harsh to be honest.
“And we can counter-attack and you have to box cleverly too.
“If you run into Gaoth Dobhair, they will turn you over and make you look silly.
“The hardest defence we come up against is our own at the training.
“You can get nothing out of them, and you often go home pissed off because you never get a ball of them on Tuesday or Thursday.
“The only time you get a bit of freedom is on a Sunday.”
These are truly happy days for Brendan McDyer and his comrades, and he will be hoping for another bit of freedom on Sunday in Breffni Park and another remarkable result.
In the meantime, there is the small matter of celebrating a truly remarkable triumph.
