After their speedy acceptance that the concussed Lee Keegan should have been substituted earlier in last Sunday’s defeat by Cork, the Mayo Gaelic football set-up has been widely praised for a constructive contribution to the player welfare ‘conversation’.

There are many reasons why it’s fitting Galway and Kilkenny will go to a replay now, one of them being that the hurling season will now outlast football’s.

IT’S probably the first time I didn’t ask a single question at an interview session. Minutes after Sunday’s second Leinster senior hurling semi-final, Kilkenny’s 18-point win over Offaly and Kilkenny manager Brian Cody was holding court, a good man to express himself. And I haven’t a single question.