Shortly after the final whistle, the two teams mingled, swapped jerseys, and smiled in the middle of the field. Level 15 times and never more than two points difference between them, it was all they could do.

Larry Ryan offers some thoughts on the football week.

There is a moment at the end of any big, tight game in Croke Park when the whistle blows and you discover that, journalist and all bedamned, your gut tells you how you wanted it to go.

Tadhg De Brún’s memoirs will be in the shops soon. If you’re a GAA fan it’s essential for your library – after all, how many people do you know who have worked at 84 All-Ireland finals?

LAID up as he currently is after an operation on his left knee, Paul McGinley has plenty of time to reflect on 2004.

It’s a fine balance at Augusta between panache and patience.

Drones steered by military personnel in Nevada, in the US, routinely and anonymously kill people on target lists half a world away, in places like Yemen and Afghanistan, careless of who else dies in the attacks, says Des Breen.

Managers don’t live or die by their decisions but they either win or lose by them, keep their jobs or are fired by them.