Cork have always had an abundance of talent but now that they are finding players with the right mix of skill and character, the last two Cork U20 teams have turned into a real force

This Cork team definitely look to be different. That was obvious from their manic workrate and high tackle count throughout the game

Clare have momentum. The players are in good form but it’s difficult to know how much last Saturday’s game will have taken out of them ahead of their qualifier against Cork.

The only game I could really recall like it was Leinster’s incredible turnaround against Northampton in the 2011 Heineken Cup final

I was sitting at a desk in front of a TV monitor deep in the bowels of Croke Park on Saturday afternoon when Ray McManus, the renowned Sportfile photographer, was suddenly standing nearby.

Tipperary were the best team in the country in 2019, but, human nature being as it is, there are more teams than just Limerick which place an asterisk beside their All-Ireland win of two years ago.

The foul was committed inside the 20m line but how could James Owens’ mind compute, in that handful of seconds, that it was a goalscoring chance?

When we were locked down in misery over the winter, it was the prospect of weekends like this that kept so many people going

Allowing John Conlon — who Waterford effectively allowed play as a sweeper — to play so much easy ball was crazy stuff

Whatever team Waterford name, they will fancy their chances. They will take a lot of confidence from the manner of last year’s All-Ireland quarter-final win, especially the way in how they streaked away from Clare in the last quarter. Waterford ended with 3-27 that afternoon. Anything close to that will be enough again