Cathal Kiely proved the hero for Offaly as his personal tally of 0-20 helped the Faithful County to dispatch Dublin by the bare minimum after extra time in their Bord Gáis Energy Leinster U20 Hurling Championship quarter-final at Parnell Park last night.

Breandán Ó hEithir, thou should be living at this hour. The man who wrote The Begrudger’s Guide To Irish Politics, the greatest work ever composed on that topic, would have revelled in the election campaign which has just finished, writes Michael Moynihan