Páirc Esler

6 days ago | irishexaminer.com | John Fogarty |Páirc Esler

The best could be yet to come said Cork manager John Cleary on Saturday night and this latest chapter of the Sam Maguire Cup made for riveting viewing. Galway will be in the All-Ireland quarter-final pot on Monday morning but only after Down, for the second time in the space of seven days, came up just short in a captivating game of football. The 14,435 crowd in Newry’s Páirc Esler were treated to a gem of a game but one wonders just how many of these close shaves Galway can keep enduring.