Eoin Sheahan

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1,551 appearances 23 recordings 3 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 30 Jun

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The Claire Byrne Show · A look back on the weekend of sport with Eoin Sheahan · 27 Apr 2026 podcast

And he was like...

No, you can't really lean on that.

And then he revealed that his screensaver for the last three weeks had been a typo on an RTE graphic, which had said that on May the 3rd, it would be Donegal versus Armagh slash Tyrone instead of Donegal slash Down versus Armagh slash Tyrone.

So he took that personally, to use the words of Michael Jordan.

And I'm not sure, was it just some sort of self-motivation that he showed to his players well in advance?

Right before.

Yeah, like it does.

I think there is a lot to be said for that sort of motivation.

And we see that, you know, when it gets to the championship and it gets to these provincial games, the intensity and the quality of football and the stakes, they all just feel infinitely higher than if these two same teams met in the league.

And that's probably more of a point about the hurling, but it pertains to the football as well.

And it just feels that everybody is just highly charged when it comes to particularly their first game in the championship.

And

maybe for Donegal they had that high after hammering Kerry in the National League final at the start of the month or at the end of March and maybe it's hard to get back up again for that second game afterwards and that motivation piece is a fascinating one there's now a real collection of teams who've had brilliant National League final performances

and have fallen flat on their face in the province.

So Mayo have been guilty of this.

Last time they won the National League, they would have been beaten by Roscommon in their first day out in Connacht.

Derry famously two years ago had that big win against Dublin in the National League final, were hockeyed by Donegal in the first round of the Ulster Championship.

And something similar has just happened to Donegal here as well.

I think that's a big part, their motivation in terms of getting up for that league final as much as Down's motivation of being written off was.

Yeah, the magnitude to which Mayo were beaten was a big shock.

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