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What did the RTÉ and BBC panels make of the final?

Mon, 28 Jul, 2025 - 04:43

The great day has dawned and there are so many questions to be asked and answered. After such a gloriously expansive championship will two notably expansive teams (“It’s the right way to end the year,” Lee Keegan declares on RTÉ) provide a cracker, or, perversely and probably predictably, a damp squib?

Agus ceist eile. Why do BBC Northern Ireland have an Irish female comedian you’ve never heard of, an English actor you’ve never heard of, Douglas Henshall (a Scottish actor you may or may not have heard of) and Martin Compston, the small guy from Line of Duty, empanelled to give their thoughts on the match?

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