The All-Ireland football championship is moving from a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it experience to a you-cannot-afford-to-miss-this sensation. The provincial finals have been reborn in recent years and this year’s contests in Leinster and Connacht in particular spoke to a format renewed and re-energised. There is real purpose, real spirit and true community in what is happening in the provincial championships. The provincial championships have meaning again, not because they have any greater significance in the All-Ireland football calendar than they used to, but because of something I’ve been talking about for some time: competitive balance. I worked on RTÉ for the two games…

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