Cork fans celebrate beating Limerick in the Munster hurling championship at Pairc Ui Chaoimh, Cork. That the triumph over Limerick wasn’t on our normal telly screens whipped up yet more debate about the less-than-loved behind-a-paywall-service GAAGo. Photograph: Laszlo Geczo/Inpho
It was left to Ciarán Whelan, on duty in Clones with Joanne Cantwell and Peter Canavan, to try and sell that Leinster final to the viewers, maybe persuade them that the Leinster championship finale would have viewers’ buttocks clinging to the edge of their couches. Donegal goalkeeper Shaun Patton saving a penalty to win the Ulster senior championship final in Clones, Co Monaghan. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho
Now that outcome was always likely when United’s team was named, Roy Keane inserting his face in his hands when he saw that Casemiro and Jonny Evans were once again the central defensive partnership, a handful of days after Crystal Palace played with them much like a cat might torment a mouse.