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to bed. Eventually. It

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was Nip and Took for a while. It was

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Nip and Took for a while. I think

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everyone went into this tournament expecting Scotty Shaeffler

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to win it, but that doesn't always tend

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to be how these Masters tournaments work

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out. So he finished 11 under

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par, just four shots ahead of

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Aberg, who is a really interesting

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story. He only turned

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professional last year. This is his

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first Masters tournament, first time

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in a major. And he

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kept the pressure on to

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Shaeffler for most of the weekend, which was

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really impressive from him. He's

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only 24 and I mean, look at

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Shaeffler, he's also only 27. So

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these young guns are really impressive at

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that stage. Afterwards we saw

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McElroy interviewed. I was still awake

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for that. And he was kind

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of rueful about his game. I

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mean, he had a terrible day

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on Friday. Really difficult. Six

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hour round. My God. Really

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difficult. I think he talked about the wind

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and also the conditions of the grasp, two things that he

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really, really struggled with. It's

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his 10th bid to win the Masters and

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he wants to complete obviously the career Grand Slam

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as well. But it just wasn't to be for

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him this weekend. He said he

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didn't really know what to say. He seemed

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a little bit lost for words after the

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whole thing. His footing was really abysmal as

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well at different stages. Yeah, it was almost

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as if he had given up at one point.

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He was exasperated to be quite honest. That's how

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he looked. Tiger Woods cut a

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sorry figure at the end. He did.

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I think anyone who's watched Tiger over the

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last while can see that he's a man

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who's definitely struggling with injuries and struggling with

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the the weight of the career that he's

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had in the past but he seems to

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want to keep going and keep competing as

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well. At the end when he walked

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off the 18th he looked tired

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but he also seemed to be

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trying desperately to walk properly that

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he was carrying that leg

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and not easily. Yeah he's had

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a really really difficult time between his back and his

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leg over the last couple of years so it'll be

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interesting to see how much more we see of him.

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Now let's talk football and a villa

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surprise for Arsenal at home, my goodness

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2-0. Do we have

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to talk about it? Well

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I mean if it weren't

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for Liverpool's disappointment when Crystal

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Palace shot them at Anfield

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again you have two home games and

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two defeats. I knew when Liverpool lost

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that game that Arsenal were not going to

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win against Aston Villa. I was already reluctant

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going into the weekend that they were going

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to be able to get the win but

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I think it's the exact sort of place

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that Arsenal always stumble at and

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it just gives Manchester City a free

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run in. Now I think they

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all still have to play Spurs and that's the

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only team that they all three still have to

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play so that could be an interesting one in

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terms of the title run in. Then Tottenham

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falter but Man United cannot take advantage of

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it. I mean they're lucky to have drawn

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2-0. It was an

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absolutely mad weekend of football. I think we do

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a thing on a Friday on off the ball

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where we guessed the scores for the weekend. The

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only result that any one of us got right

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was Shane Hannon guessing that Manchester United were going

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to beat Chelsea in the women's ethic of every

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single other game we got predicted wrong so it

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was a bit of a mad weekend of football.

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Now we talked about the prospect of a wooden

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spoon for the Irish women in the Six Nations,

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not so and they have an

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emphatic victory over Wales. An absolutely brilliant win

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for them. I know a lot of eyes

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would have been on Leinster La Rochelle on

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Saturday but this was a completely

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comprehensive performance from the Irish squad.

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They lot more mature than we've seen them

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in a long time. Cleana Maloney making her

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return really just brought that little bit of

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experience for them, Aoife Wayfer has been absolutely

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brilliant in this tournament. And hopefully it's a turning

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point for them because that was a Welsh team

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that should have beaten them fairly comprehensively. But the

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fact that Ireland were able to get a win

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was massive. Now, thriller of the

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weekend was going to be Leinster and

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La Rochelle, particularly Rog bringing the team

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to Ireland in advance with a lot

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of mind games going on. And

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at halftime, just before halftime, when La

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Rochelle run in a try to keep

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the deficit at only 10 points, we

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thought, is history going to repeat itself?

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But it did not repeat itself and Leinster managed

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to hold them scoreless in the second half. It

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was a complete washout by Leinster.

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Brilliant defensive performance.

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Ashleigh O'Reilly was chatting to Kaelyn

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Dorris, Leo Cullen, Ross Burn all

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after the game, all paid great

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attention to Jack Niena Bar and what he

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has brought to the Leinster team in particular. I

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think a lot of people going into that game wouldn't have said

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that Ross Burn would be the person coming out the other side

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as the man of the match performance, but very clean

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kicking from him. Very clean, but also

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he was tough on the tackle. He

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was everywhere. He was everywhere. And

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I think that was the thing before

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we've seen the pure power of La

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Rochelle over throw Leinster and there was

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none of that. They were putting in

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tackle after tackle. So brilliant performance from

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them. Big match now coming up in Crop

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Park, which should be interesting. It

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would be, I wonder how many people they'll get

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in for that one because obviously tickets to the

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La Rochelle game were absolute gold dust to get.

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But then there was the history there between the

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two sides and the Roman O'Gara factor. He was

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booed every time he was brought up on the

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big screens and the Aviva. So the Leinster crowd

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is very clear how they feel with him. But

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it should be a good occasion in Crop Park.

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Speaking of GAA then, I mean,

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it would be ironic if the biggest crowd of

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the early season is a rugby crowd in Crop

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Park. Looking at Dublin Meath at

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3.19 to 12. And

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absolutely stellar performance by Dublin, Paul Manion

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in particular was all over

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the pitch. Meads just didn't have any answer

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to Dublin, which is hardly unsurprising. The big

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game though in Croke Park though just before

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that was the league final in the Camogie

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and Tipperary stops Galway's run for three in

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a row in the final. They're really, really

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impressive win for them. Galway went in as

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heavy favourites, even though Tipperary had actually beaten

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them early on in the year. And that's

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a big league win for them for the

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first time in a long, long time. And

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Laude take Wexford for 10 to 15 points,

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which is brilliant for Manah, 9,

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Armagh, 3, 11. So that

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was another emphatic at this time for

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Armagh. And then we had a one

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pointer between Kildare and Wicklow. I know

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an opportunity to win at the end as well for

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Wicklow with a goal, but they just missed it.