Limerick’s players didn’t need the dust to settle on their six-point win over Tipperary to realise the margin didn’t flatter them in the slightest. When they return to training this evening, John Kiely may even use it as a stick to beat them with.

‘WHAT are you giving up for Lent?’ Surely this is one of the top five questions asked in Ireland during the first week of Lent and rarely spoken about in the weeks after as one by one we succumb to temptation.

Epic was how the man behind me described the gig as we left on a euphoric high, and even that description fell short.

Labour leader Brendan Howlin has accused Simon Coveney and Leo Varadkar of using the race to replace Taoiseach Enda Kenny to “drag the country further to the right”.

When most of us look back on yesterday’s drama at Croke Park, it will be the image of Dean Rock’s 75th-minute free cannoning off the Kerry post that will emerge from the fug of time and stand out in our mind’s eye as the last act on a stage that delivered an absurd amount of drama.

This morning, many United fans will be experiencing a facial expression they had almost forgotten they could enjoy. Step towards the mirror, lads, and feast upon The Smug Grin.

The Government is continuing to break its own rules on appointments to state boards, with the majority of positions filled by people selected by ministers without going through a public advertisement process.

There is a powerful whiff of hypocrisy behind today’s shocking report showing the Government is shamelessly ignoring its own rules on appointments to state boards.

Talking like he had just stepped out of a spy film, Garda Ombudsman Simon O’Brien lit up the Leinster House air with incendiary references to “threats”, “covert black-ops”, and “secret reports” swirling around his organisation.

For four years in a row Dr Crokes have been kings in the Kingdom, and for the latter three they’ve ruled the roost in Munster.

"What are we without our stories?" asks Dinny, the father of two young men in Enda Walsh’s bizarre homicidal drama, The Walworth Farce.

Jim Gavin believes the idea of semi-professional referees would jar with the GAA’s amateur ethos, but the Dublin manager has advocated using two referees in Gaelic football.

STATISTICAL BREAKDOWN

Barcelona 1 Atletico Munich 1

West Ham 2 Hull City 1

Enda Kenny celebrated his third anniversary in power by slipping on jackboots and giving democracy a good kicking.