TÓMAS QUINN: Were Tyrone already on Dublin’s mind?

The August Bank Holiday weekend is usually a pretty good starting point for the business end of the football championship, writes Tomás Quinn.

We had the first full house of the season, three counties from the north descending on Dublin with the hope we would get two competitive quarter-finals.

As I walked through Fairview on my way up to Croke Park a couple of tourists walked past, two of them wearing Liverpool jerseys. It was only then I remembered there was A soccer friendly on in the Aviva where Liverpool were facing Athletic Bilbao. I laughed to myself thinking they were walking the wrong direction, why head to the far side of the city to see a friendly? Turns out they likely saw a contest with similar levels of competitiveness than what was served up across the afternoon on Jones Road.