The day that changed football

Kieran Shannon looks back at three epic encounters on Sunday, June 26, 2011 that proved to be momentous moments in shaping the destinies of three provincial championships.

It hasn’t always been like this, it only feels this way.

Where you can’t see anyone remotely touching Dublin in Leinster, Connacht is Mayo’s both to lose and to rule, Donegal are again fancied to outwit Tyrone and win out Ulster while Killarney appears an unbreachable fortress to Cork and the rest of Munster.