I was in Milebush on Sunday, for the Oscar Traynor Cup semi-final between the Limerick League and the Donegal League.

It wasn’t a great game in terms of quality, but both sides tried hard and had fine individual performances.

Limerick lived up to their favourites tag and won it in extra time with an excellent goal, after the sides were tied 1-1 after normal time thanks to two second-half penalties.

The team of officials were from Mayo. Eric Eaton had a solid game in the middle and Óisin Walsh and James Robinson assisted him on the line.

All performed well. It was good to see the officials use intercoms, but sadly, this was the only sign of professionalism on display. Much of what happened on Sunday was an embarrassment for the game in the county.

I arrived at the ground about 50 minutes before kick-off. I was covering the game for an out-of-town media outlet and wanted to have my ducks in a row before the game started.

My first observation was the lack of any presence on the gate. There was nobody collecting admission money, which I thought strange since this was an All-Ireland semi-final.

There was no match programme available. A few years ago, in lieu of a programme, a QR Code was displayed around the ground, which you could scan on your phone, and presumably, it would display the programme.

On that occasion I didn’t bother in disgust. On........

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