Promotion and relegation in GAA leagues; wacky FA Cup tie; interview with Sammie Szmodics
Ireland’s Peter O’Mahony and Conor Murray celebrate with the trophy Guinness Six Nations trophy. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire
For the first 40 minutes on Saturday, there was, writes Gerry Thornley, a “slightly anticlimactic” feel to this Irish team edging towards retaining their Six Nations title at home on a St Patrick’s weekend. That, he says, was, but a measure of the level of expectations this side has to live with now. “Regrets, they’ll have a few, not least about Twickenham, but lifting the trophy was the best way of atoning. Champions all right.” And don’t try talking anticlimaxes to Peter O’Mahony.
, for whom Alan Connolly scored his second hat-trick in a week. A busy Denis also found time to write aboutthat wacky FA Cup game between Manchester United and Liverpool: Ireland take on Afghanistan in the third of their T20 series this afternoon , while this evening RTÉ 2′s Against the Head reflects on the final weekend of the Six Nations and TG4 brings the highlights from the GAA weekend .
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