No champagne in the Galway dressing room. Not much singing either. Quiet contentment at best after a one-sided Connacht final and a championship which has yet to see them challenged.
"The few points we got after half-time were very significant and swung the game our way. But Leitrim came back with three points in-a-row and kept tagging away, so, thankfully, our full-back line was in great form and kept them from getting a goal," sums up Galway boss John O'Mahony.
"Against Sligo, we used the ball well, today we didn't, so it was vital that we stamped our authority on the game early in the second half and we did that."
What a strange summer so far though. A nothing opener against New York, the sacking of Sligo on a drenched day in Markievicz and now, this relaxed path through a predictable final. Nothing compared to what lies ahead.
"Yeah, well I suppose, given the way the games have turned out, our backs haven't been really to the wall. That could be significant, but, at the end of the day, it is within our control and I feel that, if we work hard over the next weeks, we can put right a lot of the things that weren't happening for us today.
"And I don't want to take anything away from Leitrim, but I do feel we will have to up it a lot when we leave the province. That said, we are delighted to be leaving the province. All we wanted was a ticket to an All-Ireland semi-final."
Leitrim goalkeeper Gareth Phelan is leaning against a wall outside the dressingroom, reflecting on a match which seemed to pass in an instant. Much hinged on the early frantic period, when Galway established daylight with a penalty.
"We didn't get off to a great start, but I thought it was a dubious penalty. Maybe I'm wringing, but he sort of slid into the square and, I dunno, maybe there were hands on him, but I didn't think he got taken down. (David) Savage put the penalty away fairly well, I didn't get a chance at it.
"But we were always up against it after that. And we missed chances. Take away that penalty, the game might have been level at half-time. And then, in the second half, well, we put it up to them at times, but they were always the stronger team. Simple as that."
A fair summary. And yet there must be a lot to take for a county which faces a perennial struggle to fashion teams from a thin population.
"Well, these lads are very, very young. The win against Roscommon and even this experience will stand to them in a big way and we won't drop the heads too far down. Have a good session tonight and pick it up from there."
Whether Joe Reynolds will return to lead them for another season remains to be seen. The eloquent Eslin man is going around consoling and encouraging each of his players. It just wasn't to be.
"There is good resilience in this team and we needed it to keep the belief after everyone telling us we'd be hammered off the field. Things didn't go particularly well at crucial stages.
"Galway got the scores at times when we really needed them and they really have a few class players there who know where the posts are. We could have taken an early lead, had the chances, but they weren't going over.
"It was unfortunate, because we needed every score we could get and, the longer the scoreboard read 0-0, it became psychologically harder on the lads. Then came the penalty and, I dunno, I'll have to see it again, but on balance the referee was good, very fair.
"Seamus Quinn was dragged down late in the second half. Probably wasn't a penalty, but we would have taken it if we got it. It would have made for a hell of finish. But instead, it was the final note to the lads that they weren't going to make the break through today."
