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Comment: Tipperary rise as time ticks and tallies fail

Championship fury is stoked by two unforgiving masters: the score and the ticking hands.

Mon, 07 Jul, 2025 - 07:04

Maurice Brosnan

At the front of the Davin Stand is a modest digital scoreboard. The other screens in Croke Park are bright, dynamic bonanzas, displaying match footage, half-time stats, everything you’d expect. This one, though, offers the bare minimum. In recent days, that scoreboard was moved.

All it shows is the live time, military style, and the score. Not even the game clock is included. Seemingly, the NFL requested that the display be positioned higher ahead of their September arrival. It was raised from the front of the first tier to the top one, just above the high-behind camera that mounts that end.

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