As John Heslin took a free for Westmeath last weekend in the dying seconds of their game versus Tyrone, I realised I was wrong. Around the same time, Shane Walsh had a shot for Galway who were losing by a point deep into injury time against Armagh. I was gripped. The All Ireland group games, which some of us had questioned the point of, were delivering in the most dramatic fashion. For me, this was almost as surprising as the matches themselves – not that I was wrong, but that so few people had seen this coming. After all, if…

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