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.

Sevilla 0 Benfica 0 (4-2 on penalties)

Biker looks for false teeth on busy Spain highway

LEINSTER SFC QUARTER-FINAL:

Parades, bands, flags.

The Government has no plans to ask barrister Sean Guerin why he did not interview former justice minister Alan Shatter as part of his inquiry into allegations of Garda malpractice, despite Mr Shatter saying the Taoiseach might intervene.

The Government is flouting its rules on appointments to state boards, with more than two-thirds of positions filled without being advertised.

A heartbroken mother was brought to church in a wheelchair to say a final farewell to her only child who died in a road crash.