A game that lasts forever

AT the end of the hottest week for many a year in Ireland, it was the weekend of weekends in Dublin.

One-hundred-and-thirty-five thousand screaming fans thronged into the Phoenix Park for the Robbie Williams concert on Saturday, more tens of thousands were in Ballsbridge for the final two days of the Dublin Horseshow, but due respect to both those events, the epicentre of this seismic few days in the capital was in Croke Park yesterday afternoon.

This was the kind of game, this the kind of day, that lasts forever.