It’s off, in ways we wouldn’t have expected under a manager of Martin O’Neill’s standing.

Well, there it went, just like that, in something of a whimper.

They couldn’t, could they? Go all the way?

Last year, when I met Bill O’Herlihy for the first and only time just days before his last broadcast anchoring the RTÉ football panel, he made one of those characteristic self-depreciating comments as we were finishing up.

In one of his last interviews as RTÉ's soccer anchor, Bill O' Herlihy spoke to Kieran Shannon about Charlton, Dunphy, Giles and retirement.

You leave in the morning

Kieran Shannon looks back at three epic encounters on Sunday, June 26, 2011 that proved to be momentous moments in shaping the destinies of three provincial championships.

There’s little in sport as distasteful, as sly and scurrilous sledging, yet little as smile-inducing as a bit of witty in-game trash-talking either.

And just like that, Waterford are again everyone’s second favourite team.

In football there always seems to be someone giving out about football, writes Kieran Shannon.