Donal O'Grady: Galway-Tipperary pivoted on Cathal Barrett's red card

Tipp were two points down on 70 minutes when Seamie Callanan careered through the centre. Adrian Tuohey took him down. “What else would you do?” I hear you say and I agree. Tuohey took his yellow card, Tipp got a point and Galway survived

Galway's Jason Flynn celebrates his side's third goal scored by Aidan Harte at LIT Gaelic Grounds. Photo by David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

In a radio advert for a one-man show on Tom Crean, the Antarctica explorer, Crean says: “Then I heard something that I never heard before or since when an officer called out, 'I made a mistake'."

We have all heard the mantra that referees don’t change their minds. However, referee Johnny Murphy proved that there is an exception to every rule. He was big enough to change his mind.