GAA dominates the back pages and sports sections today, and so it should after the shock results in both of the quarter-final football clashes at Croke Park on Saturday. The back page of the Irish News of the World shows Dublin’s Eoghan O’Gara celebrating after scoring the only goal in the game against Tyrone (Dublin 1-15 Tyrone 0-13) and reports on Down’s thrashing of champions Kerry by six points (Down 1-16 Kerry 1-10).
The Sunday World carries the headline ‘It’s D Day… O’Gara and Coulter fire Dublin and Down to shock victories’. Dublin will face the winner of Cork and Roscommon in the semi-final, while 1994 champs Down will meet the winner of today’s Meath v Kildare game.
The Sunday Times has the headline ‘Down and Out’, which is odd since Down did not go out. We’re guessing they’d come up with the headline before the game and despite the result they went with it anyway.
There’s more of the same leading the sports coverage on all the other papers, the only other stories getting a look in being reports of Rory McIlroy’s bad form at the 3 Irish Open in Killarney and of Derval O’Rourke getting a silver in the 100m hurdles at the European Championships.
