First it was one day of upsets, then it turned out to be a whole weekend of sensational action at Croke Park. Not surprisingly GAA dominates the sports pages for a second day running.
After a weekend of upsets, the Irish Daily Star reports on mounting calls for a radical overhaul of the All-Ireland football championship following the weekend’s results in which ended in all eight provincial finalists now being out of the contest after Kildare and Cork surprise wins continued what had been started by Dublin and Down on Saturday.
The Irish Independent go with the headline ‘BACK-DOOR FOUR: Kildare complete clean sweep as provincial champions crash out’. The Irish Daily Mirror and the Irish Daily Mail run headlines that read ‘CHANGE IT’ and ‘CHANGE IT NOW!’. Meath manager Eamon O’Brien is one of those reportly calling for a major rethink. The Irish Times is more positive. ‘Great weekend for longshots and upstarts’, its main headline says.
The Irish Sun also focuses on the unexpected make-up of the final four who will fight it out to win the Sam Maguire this year. The Sun also features the story that Alex Ferguson has promised that Wayne Rooney will be among those Manchester United players heading for the Aviva Stadium on Wednesday. John O’Shea will lead United out against an Airtricity League XI.
Elsewhere on the sports pages European silver medallist hurler Derval O’Rourke and 3 Irish Open champ Ross Fisher get honourable mentions, with Fisher calling for the Irish Open to stay in Killarney next year. Having won there, he would say that, wouldn’t he?
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