‘There’s a buzz when you see upsets all over the country’, says David Tubridy

After a weekend of missing one another, David Tubridy fields the call on Sunday evening. Before we delve into his 11 seasons with the Clare footballers or their latest trip to Killarney, there’s an afternoon of shocks to parse through.

Longford dumping Meath out of Leinster, he did not see coming. Carlow scoring a first championship win over Kildare since 1953, on the other hand, was no major surprise. Not for him, anyway. The Clare corner-forward has a couple of friends in Carlow and knew they were motoring well.

Scrolling through Twitter, he came across a stat highlighting how seven counties from Division 1 and 2 of the league have now been knocked out of their respective provincial championship. More than you’d expect for this time of year.