Something for everyone as qualifiers get real

There were eight teams in the bowl yesterday morning but all ears were for just three.

Would, as we somewhat dreaded, Kildare, Kerry and Tyrone all be kept apart, and thus invariably progress to the All-Ireland quarter-final weekend, the odd scare withstanding? Or would we get what we all hoped for: that two of them would be paired off next weekend?

As it turned out, everyone got what they wanted.