Seriously, is there any end to ageless wonder Tomás Ó Sé?

Tomás Ó Sé doesn’t turn 40 for another four months but had Nemo Rangers come up short in Portlaoise on Saturday he’d have spent parts of every day between now and June cursing himself for the injury-time turnover that allowed Slaughtneil bring an engrossing All-Ireland semi-final to extra-time, writes Tony Leen.

Not because it spoiled a near perfect performance over the course of 80-odd frantic minutes – which it didn’t – but because he suspected, like many others, that Christopher Bradley’s equalising free (a couple of plays later) in the 63rd minute would hand the Ulster champions that sliver of momentum heading into overtime.

However, one of the things one begins to understand watching the footballers of Nemo is that they don’t subscribe to norms of convention. This was their 16th All-Ireland club semi and they’ve won 12, a 75% strike rate. The notion of lost momentum is a myth in that dressing room. So they come out in extra-time and, as Barry O’Driscoll described it, went “full throttle” for a few minutes. Those extra revs produced seven unanswered points in nine minutes, blowing the lock off things and turning parity into a 1-19 to 1-12 lead.