"He's probably a bit of a freak of nature in that there are not too many fellas that can be out for a couple of weeks with an injury and come in as sharp as he does."

Kerry's 10-point hero James O'Donoghue got 10 out of 10 from manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice.

"I'm not apologising to the Cork public because the lads went out and did their very best. You lose games - fair enough, that happens but from the group's point of view we're very disappointed with what we did there."

Saying sorry can be the hardest thing to do - Brian Cuthbert and his Rebel players must now regroup ahead of the qualifiers.

"I've nothing to say, even if I wanted to."

Paul Grimley maintained his vow of silence following the Orchard County's Ulster exit.

"The boys got a fair bit of criticism after last week, but we had confidence in them."

Monaghan and manager Malachy O'Rourke will renew acquaintances with Donegal in the Anglo Celt Cup decider.

"The reason we got beaten lies with the man in the middle with that mistake that he made with Kevin Niblock not getting a free."

Referee Martin Higgins is not flavour of the month with Antrim boss Liam Bradley.

"Teams have done it to us this year but we've reversed the tables today. I'm delighted with the way the lads have applied themselves, in the second half especially."

John Brudair and Limerick march on in the back-door series.

"If you want a finisher, MJ is the man."

Laois substitute MJ Tierney helped swing the qualifier clash against Wexford in his side's favour and manager Tomas O Flatharta hailed his impact.

"I felt we would see it out but a few decisions went against us and there was one minute extra time which I thought was staggering given the amount of stoppages there were in the second half."

It was a cruel blow on Aidan O'Brien and the Model County.

"It's great and it means more games in the competition and who knows, if we get over the next one we might meet Galway for a revenge match."

Sligo boss Pat Flanagan would relish another cut at Galway.

"The crowd got behind us, in fairness to them, and we thought we'd push on but we made terrible mistakes with the ball in hand."

The championship has come to an end for Harry Murphy and Wicklow.

"Everything we tried, we didn't execute well at all."

Not long after the high of knocking Derry out, Jack Sheedy tried to articulate how his Longford side slumped to a 17-point defeat in Semple Stadium.

"It's a surprising result really because genuinely we thought it would be a point or two either way and would go to the wire."

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