Four things we learned from the weekend's football

Tipperary, Kerry, Cork and Mayo showed us some key lessons...

Excuses only go so far

Liam Kearns and what remained of his squad could have thrown their hat at it months ago. They could have gone through the motions of the season safe in the knowledge they were sheltered from criticism by the loss of players that stretched into double digits. Colin O’Riordan gone to play AFL in Australia. Steven O’Brien lost to the small ball. More again stripped from the panel by the lure of foreign lands. Who could really blame them if they had just tumbled out of the championship before high summer?