It’s up to the best of us Americans to police the worst of us by shouting down their disgraceful behavior and shutting them up.

The Ryder Cup was coming home to Europe and you’d imagine that pretty soon it will make its way to Clara.

The pitch – apologies, the field - used for the first ever NFL regular-season game on this island was laid straight after Oasis had played the second of their summer concerts at GAA HQ.

Sunday may have been all razzmatazz but three sellout crowds in the fourth largest stadium in Europe - the largest not used primarily for football – in just the last 17 months proves that there has been a lot more non-GAA events staged in Croke Park than people think.

Fans had cleared their diaries, cancelled plans, and faked their own deaths in HR systems to carve out three days of uninterrupted spectacle. They were promised duels, late-night tension, the crackle of hostility across the fairways. What they got was a European victory parade delivered two days early.

Every US mis-step at the Ryder Cup has been magnified while Europe’s Luke Donald and his team never seemed to put a foot out of place

Fresh from partnering McIlroy to an epic victory in Saturday's fourball, Shane Lowry will face Russell Henley in the eighth match of the day as Europe look to run up a landslide victory

The defending champions won six of the eight points available on Saturday.

World number two McIlroy was heckled throughout the second day by American supporters but held firm.

Scheffler became just the second American player to compete in each of the first three sessions of a Ryder Cup and lose every match (Xander Schauffele did that in 2023).

Kildunne scored a wonder try as England banished their World Cup demons

McIlroy hit back at American supporters after being subjected to heckling.

Keegan Bradley's side is staring down the barrel of a debacle at Bethpage as the visitors took an 8.5-3.5 lead thanks to Rahm magic, McIlroy and Fleetwood dominance and Hovland's remarkable nerve

The 'Fleetwood Mac' pairing were on song as they overpowered Harris English and Collin Morikawa in the foursomes for a second time in successive days at Bethpage Black.

The pair were in perfect harmony in the Saturday morning foursomes as they looked set to deliver another point for Luke Donald’s side, who came into the day with a 5.5-2.5 lead following an excellent opening day.

Donald insists making history on day one will count for little if his team do not go on to win the Ryder Cup.

McIlroy will again partner in-form Tommy Fleetwood in Saturday's morning foursomes, with Europe captain Luke Donald sticking to Friday's winning formula

It is currently not known what provoked the gesture.

JP McManus, Dermot Desmond and Limerick hurling manager John Kiely followed the Day 1 action. 

Bohemians had become the Hoops’ bogey team – inflicting three of their four defeats this season – but they were finally slayed to extend the lead at the summit to 12 points with four games remaining.