A look back on the weekend of sport
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Sport on the Clare Byrne Show with Visa. Everything's a tap in with Visa, wherever the game takes you. I'm now joined by sports journalist Daniel Hussey. Good morning to you, Daniel. So look, forget about the World Cup. Not even interested at the moment because if you are even remotely following the Gaelic, if you're remotely following the All-Ireland Football Championship, that draw this morning has set up a belter of a weekend.
It's going to be amazing. Like, I can't get over the draw. It was always going to be a good draw, just there was too many good teams in it. But to get the two, I like to say two, but there's probably three blockbuster games there. Like Dublin hosting Donegal, venues will probably be decided later on. Mayo hosting Meath, Monaghan hosting Westmeath, but then probably the big one in Clarnie. In my opinion, two of the three best teams in the country, Kerry versus Armagh. One of them is going out of the championship this weekend.
I mean, that was the draw that made me gasp this morning because the idea that one of those big giants is gone after this weekend is absolutely huge because I feel like Donegal have had about 55,000 chances to get through the quarterfinals. But this is it now.
What are the highlights of the weekend's Gaelic games?
This is it now. Teams are finally dropping off.
Yeah. Well, everyone else has because every single county in Ireland has lost a game in this year's football championship, which is a crazy stat. It took me, you know, when you see a stat, you have to double check that to be sure. So every team, like obviously Kerry lost to Donegal, Armagh lost to Loud yesterday. And just take that Loud game for a second, Sam O'Rourke's dramatic last minute goal or last kick of the game. Had that ball been caught, Armagh are in a quarterfinal in two weeks and have the weekend off. Instead, they're going to Killarney against probably the best team in the country who have got themselves back into form. So that is going to be electric in Fitzgerald Stadium. It's going to be off the charts.
The talking points... Will the Dublin-Donegal game take place in Croke Park? Probably. But Ger Brennan sort of got ahead of the news almost last night and said he'd love, that was his quote, to have the game in Parnell Park. Why Ger?
Why? Would you like to play in the smaller venue? Are you scared? Scared to take the team to Croker and to play that style of a game?
Yeah, well, listen, Carol, Dublin, we need every help we can get at the moment, to be honest with you. It's been that sort of year. And I think he just wants a raucous atmosphere. Now, to be honest, I think even if Gerry wants it, it'll probably be in Crowe Park. But if he goes to the Dublin County Board and says, we want this game in Parnell Park, they're in a difficult position. We saw it with Inishkeen last week. And I will say on the Parnell Park, obviously we want every single person who wants to go to the game to go to the games. But the atmosphere in both Tyrone Mayo and Laud Armagh yesterday, the full houses coming in on the TV, to me that was everything the GA hasn't been in recent years.
Sellouts, sellouts, sellouts. Now this one could be a step too far because, I don't know, you could get 40 plus. thousands in Crow Park versus seven to ten or eleven thousand depending what health and safety you listen to in Parnell Park so there's just so many talking points before we get the venues and times and then of course whether the games be on GA plus or RT because RT have a lot of support on given the herding quarterfinals Talton Cup and World Cup as well
To go to that Donegal Dublin game, I mean, Donegal are really putting us through the mill this year. It reminds me of my years supporting Liverpool, where one day they would go out and they'd beat United, you know, 2-0. And then they would go out the following week and Burnley would destroy them 3-0.
Which teams are facing off in the All-Ireland Football Championship?
And you'd think, I can't take this emotional rollercoaster anymore. And that's what it's been like kind of watching Donegal. I was shocked, I have to say, when I checked the phone and saw that we'd been beaten by Cork at the weekend.
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