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THE GREATEST show on earth? This Championship is right up there — and it is wide open.
The way this season has gone, somebody can come in from left field and lift Sam Maguire.
No game is a certainty and last weekend proved that.
You would have fancied Armagh to beat Galway and they didn’t, despite powering nine points clear in the first half before vintage Shane Walsh took the game by the scruff of the neck and fired over nine points, including the winner.
Mayo put it up to Donegal, but were undone by another buzzer beater when Ciarán Moore’s last-gasp score knocked them out.
While that was the fatal blow, the damage was inflicted much earlier in that opening-round defeat by Cavan in another example of these matches being so difficult to call.
It’s the Championship we have been missing for so long — 50-50 games are the norm again. The two-pointer has been instrumental — it keeps teams in games but also provides a quicker way back for sides that find themselves trailing.
And we’ve seen that over the last number of weeks.
Could Louth spring a surprise in Ballybofey against Donegal?
I can’t see it, but I’ve said that a few times during this Championship and been wrong.
And Tyrone have already turned Jim McGuinness’ men over at home in their All-Ireland series opener. The worry is that Louth struggled to dispose of Clare last weekend.
They dominated for large parts but still allowed Peter Keane’s men a way back into the game and only won by three points.
The Wee County have failed to hit the heights that propelled them to Leinster Championship glory.
The emotion of ending that 68-year wait for provincial glory looks to have taken a toll. They celebrated — and rightly so, you can’t take that away from them.
And no matter what they do in this All-Ireland series, Ger Brennan’s side have written their names into the history books and 2025 will be considered a massive success.
They would dearly love to advance and add to that legacy, but Donegal is a huge step up, even though we don’t know the toll last week’s battle with Mayo has taken out of the Ulster champions. McGuinness’ men have played seven Championship games now and the level they’re playing at does take a lot out of bodies.
Having said that, I still think they’ll win at home and head into the pot tomorrow morning.
Pádraic Joyce takes his men to Newry to face Down, and this match is a potential banana skin after the high of the win over the Orchard.
It can be hard to get players back down to earth after a victory like that, but no better man to do it than Joyce.
Down are a very good side and will be eager to set the record straight after putting in a huge performance against Monaghan but falling short in an absolute thriller.
Their physicality might just let them down, particularly with the power Galway have in John Maher, Cillian McDaid, Walsh and Paul Conroy.
On paper, you’d imagine Galway will have too much for them. They won’t have it all their own way, but they will still win, especially if Walsh brings his shooting boots again.
Do Meath have a chance of getting to an All-Ireland semi-final for the first time since 2009?
It depends on the draw, but nobody will fancy taking on this side.
You would have said Kerry beating Meath was a certainty — I called it for Kerry — but was delighted to be proven wrong.
It was a fantastic performance and the fact that nobody saw it coming makes it all the sweeter.
I thought they’d give the Kingdom a run for their money, but the Munster champions were completely outplayed.
It was a free hit in a sense. Having already qualified, Meath probably said, ‘Listen, we’re through anyway, we’ll give it a good rattle and see how it goes’.
Much has been made of Kerry’s injury list but Meath were missing some of their big hitters too.
James Conlon, Ronan Jones, Jack Flynn and Mathew Costello missed the trip to Tullamore with hamstring injuries.
They mightn’t be household names like the Kerry absentees, but they’re hugely influential.
Nobody will want to play Robbie Brennan’s team because they’ve proven they can take out big teams. Dublin and Kerry were dispatched comprehensively and the Royals have also seen off Cork.
They were unbeaten in the All-Ireland series and were unfortunate against Louth in the Leinster final. They will be coming into the quarter-finals fresh and fearless.
Contrast that with Mayo, who are facing another long winter and the accompanying post-mortem. It’s hard to see Kevin McStay saying on for a fourth campaign after health issues forced him to step aside following the Cavan defeat.
That dressing room could be headed for a big clearout and the days of challenging for All-Irelands seem to be behind them, with Galway chasing five consecutive Connacht titles next summer.
The Championship is a poorer place without them, but they only have themselves to blame.
It’s fine margins and they bow out as one of the biggest losers.
For this weekend’s winners, they face three games in 14 days so fatigue will be a factor.
We always compare our players with soccer players in the League of Ireland or across the water who play week in, week out but having sampled a bit of that life, I can say that it’s completely different.
Soccer doesn’t have the same level of physicality or pressures on the body and those take a huge toll. It’s survival of the fittest from now.
A WOMAN has told how her clothes melted into her skin after being attacked by acid.
And Joanna Grabczak, 25, said: “All I can remember is the pain and the absolute panic and chaos.”
The mother of one is now trying to raise funds for reconstructive surgery in a bid to help rebuild her confidence — as she struggles along the slow road to recovery.
Joanna was 20 when a woman walked into the takeaway she was working in and threw a cup containing sulphuric acid at her.
She was standing behind the counter of One Asian Kitchen Takeaway in Tallaght, Dublin, when Katarzyna Wsiubiak carried out the sickening unprovoked attack on December 13, 2020.
In 2023, Wsiubiak — who was 34 at the time and from Tallaght — was found not guilty by a jury by reason of insanity.
Speaking for the first time since the terrifying ordeal, Joanna said she still has nightmares about the night in question.
But she said counselling and the love and support from her partner, Daniel, and her family and friends has helped pull her through.
And Joanna, who has since moved from Dublin, hopes a hair graft and tattoos to cover the scarring will help her be more confident when she’s out in public.
Speaking about the sickening attack, she said: “I was actually not meant to be working that night, I was meant to be off.
“I was more than half way through my shift when a woman walked in just after 8pm and came through the counter and threw a cup at me.
“I didn’t know what was in the cup but then the pain hit me.
“I stopped in my tracks and I didn’t hear anything except my own screams.
“I pulled off my top and my co-worker grabbed me and brought me to the sink and started pouring water on me. I’m so grateful to him because if he hadn’t of done that my scars and injuries would no doubt have been a lot more severe.
“All I can remember is the pain and the absolute panic and chaos.
“The clothes I had on were starting to melt into my skin.
“The acid hit my face, my chest, the left side of my abdominal and left arm.
“My left eye shut instantly and I now have a scar on my cornea.”
Speaking about her attacker, Katarzyna Wsiubiak, Joanna said: “She was later diagnosed with schizophrenia and is currently in a psychiatric hospital.
“I didn’t know her personally at the time of the attack, she would order food from the restaurant and I would say hello to her but that was it.”
Joanna, who is originally from Poland but has lived in Ireland since the age of five, said her life since the nightmare ordeal has been a very bumpy road but she is finally making progress.
“All I can remember is the pain and the absolute panic and chaos.”
Joanna Grabczak
She said: “I am still receiving laser scar therapy at St James’s Hospital for facial injuries and ongoing care at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital.
“The acid also damaged my left eye, leaving a scar on my cornea that affects my vision.
“I have also had two years of therapy for PTSD, anxiety and the horrific dreams which I continue to have to manage daily.”
She continued: “This attack didn’t just scar my body, it stole time, confidence and peace from me. But I’m still here, and I’m still fighting.
“I want to feel like myself again — I want to go outside without feeling ashamed or broken.
“I had to have skin grafts on my head so I have no hair whatsoever growing there.
“I need to have a hair transplant and it costs a lot of money — up to €10,000 — which I don’t have. I never received any compensation for what happened to me.
“Surgeons will have to take healthy hair from the other side of my head to try to cover the grafted area.
“I’m hoping it will help me take one more step towards healing, physically and emotionally.”
“The clothes I had on were starting to melt into my skin.”
Joanna Grabczak
Joanna, who spent a month in hospital following the vile attack — due to her horrific injuries — said she set up a GoFundMe page to try and fundraise around €13,500 for further treatment.
She continued: “I’m trying to raise funds to help me take back control over how I look and — more importantly — how I feel about myself. I’m working towards two major goals.
“I also want to get tattoos, which will not be cosmetic but rather therapeutic. This isn’t about vanity, it is about giving me back the confidence to look in the mirror and not be reminded of my trauma every day.”
A GoFundMe account has been set up to help Joanna raise the much needed funds.
