Auguste Rodin justified the hype ahead of the Irish Derby, while Team Ireland kept racking up medals at the European Games
Monaghan’s Conor McManus celebrates his side's penalty shoot-out win over Armagh on Saturday. Photograph: James Crombie/InphoThe All Ireland Football Championship reached the penultimate stage after the weekend’s quarter-finals and the draw that followed will see Dublin take on Monaghan on Saturday, July 15th while defending champions Kerry face Ulster title holders Derry on Sunday, July 16th ; both matches take place at Croke Park.
Kerry produced an imperious performance in hammering Tyrone, Monaghan squeezed past Armagh after a penalty shoot-out, Derry edged out Cork in a soporific encounter within her television column where she wrote: “There were times in that first half that you’d be wondering if you’d sat on the remote and inadvertently hit pause, so little movement was there out on the pitch, and while it might have had some of our grannies and grandads spinning in their graves, some of us actually switched over to...
“In a 24-minute spell, either side of half-time, Mayo went from two points up to eight points down, without registering a score. They lost control of their kick-outs, and when Dublin raised the volume of everything after half-time, it looked as if Mayo dropped their hands, dazed and defenceless.”crunches some numbers.
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