Destiny calls but Joe Canning could do without history lessons

For now, Galway’s dance card is blank. Their holding off of Tipp last weekend demonstrated a steeliness and resolve that bodes well for their All-Ireland hopes. 

They’ve proved they’re not easily rattled — not by playing the All-Ireland champions, or by favourites tags, or by conceding early goals.

Not after coming through these last three semi-finals with Tipp — what Micheál Donoghue was already, in a self-aware post-match interview, referring to as ‘the trilogy’.