Christy O'Connor: Should every county final level at normal time go to a replay?
The Mayo SFC final between Ballina and Westsport will be replayed after the sides finished level on Sunday. Pic: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile
At the end of normal time in the 2024 All-Ireland hurling final, as Anthony Daly, Liam Sheedy and Donal Óg Cusack were arguing against the principle of extra-time in an All-Ireland final, Joanne Cantwell brought up the example of Jack McCaffrey to elucidate why players might want to get the game finished on the day.
When McCaffrey announced that he was stepping away from playing with the Dublin footballers in 2020 at just 27, one of the key moments in shaping that decision arrived after the drawn All-Ireland final with Kerry the previous year. “It broke me,” McCaffrey said the following year. “I thought there was extra-time but David Moran just stuck his hand out to shake my hand. I was like, 'We don't have to do this again, do we?'"
