The spirit of the hurling championship was nicely encapsulated by Kilkenny great Richie Hogan, who was on analysis duty for GAA+ at Semple Stadium on Sunday for Tipperary’s meeting with Limerick.

Would it have been disrespectful to write Leitrim off before a ball was thrown in? I'll throw my hands up and admit I didn't give them a prayer of hope prior to the game, largely taking their league form into account.

Connacht SFC Semi-Final  Mayo 0-20  Leitrim 0-13  Stephen Grealis in Avant Money Páirc Seán MacDiarmada  Pathetic fallacy is real (sometimes).

All-Ireland U16 ‘C’ Camogie Shield Final  Mayo 3-10  Louth 0-6  In St.

Connacht LGFA U14 Gold Final  Galway 4-12  Mayo 3-1  Maggie Chambers at CoE, Bekan The Mayo U14 girls put up a spirited fight but a powerful Galway side proved too ...

Hubris won’t be an issue ahead of the Connacht Final anyway. Maybe that is a good thing. We’ll know soon enough. For Mayo, it was job done in Carrick-on-Shannon on Saturday but you couldn’t really call it a job well done or inspirational stuff.

Nicky Rackard Cup - Round 2  Mayo 1-29  Armagh 0-11  Stuart Tynan at BOX-IT Athletic Grounds  Mayo went top of the Nicky Rackard Cup table thanks to a comprehensive ...

Socrates once said, “The unexamined life is not worth living. ” For that, he was sentenced to death, handed a goblet of poison for the crime of asking too many uncomfortable questions - proof, perhaps, that uncomfortable truths are rarely welcomed.

Nicky Rackard Cup – Round 2  Sligo 0-17  Roscommon 1-14  Gavin Cawley at Markievicz Park  A Roscommon goal in the 78th minute, despite only three minutes of injury ...

Mayo went top of the Nicky Rackard Cup table thanks to a comprehensive 1-29 to 0-11 victory over Armagh in the BOX-IT Athletic Grounds.