Wexford 2-25 Clare 2-22 (after extra-time)

FOR just over 20,000 fans who strolled in to Pairc Uí Chaoimh on that (awful) Munster Football Finals Day, they were unexpectedly greeted by some security people.

"One day it might indeed all end, but Eamo’s show will surely go on forever."

Such an epic All-Ireland hurling semi-final I have not borne witness to in a long time.

That thunderclap in Dublin yesterday around quarter to four was warranted.

Don’t work with children or animals, they say. With the former, the GAA have long succeeded in defying that idiom, but in Croke Park yesterday they tried their hand with a bird of prey and, well, it didn’t go too well.

Cork City 1 St Patrick’s Athletic 0

The 1965 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe attracted a field more glittering than any other Flat race of the 20th century.

Don’t allow the diminutive figure of Marian Earls fool you — the Wicklow town native is a powerful force which has helped many of the Irish women’s senior team become household names this last week.

Mayo manager James Horan stuck to his guns last night and insisted he had no regrets over his comments about Cork’s management team following their All-Ireland quarter-final last Sunday.

Celtic 0 Legia Warsaw 2 (Aggregate 1- 6)

WEXFORD v LIMERICK

Just as referees’ performances are open to criticism when it’s deserved, they should be praised when it’s due.

AS the final Cabinet meeting of the Dáil term fades into the rear view mirror and a fearful country wonders how it will do without their guiding hands during the well-deserved two-month holiday TDs voted themselves, it is time to look back over the highs and lows of an eventful session.

Belgooly, Cork €479,000

The good times are back in Wexford. Win, lose or draw on Sunday, the Model must now push on to the next level

His fame came from football but his name transcends the game. Dermot Earley was John Scally’s boyhood hero.

Offaly’s 1964 All-Ireland minor football win would prove the building block for the county’s later success — and Martin Furlong’s input was crucial.

If it’s any consolation to Alex Ferguson, he isn’t the only football management legend currently residing in Roy Keane’s crosshairs.

It’s something that veteran Kerry footballer Aidan O’Mahony has yet to figure out — how his eye fell on a young fan in the crowd just minutes after his team’s victory in the recent All-Ireland final.