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Championship pics

Here are 32 of the best pics from this year's All-Ireland football championship

Joy, despair, blood and pitch invasions feature in our championship gallery.

Aidan O’Shea can barely continue after normal time of the All-Ireland semi-final replay against Kerry

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Jim McGuinness celebrates after winning the Ulster title with Donegal

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Alan Brogan with his wife and son after losing to Donegal in the All-Ireland semi-final

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Hugh Coughlan of Tipperary mourns his side’s loss to Galway

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Aidan Walsh celebrates after kicking a late point against Tipperary

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Paul Kerrigan and Paul Murphy clash during the Munster Championship

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Carlow manager Anthony Rainbow can’t his his disappointment after Carlow’s loss to Meath

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Kerry minor goalkeeper Shane Ryan breakdances after winning the Munster Championship

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Conor McManus celebrates Monaghan ending their Croke Park drought against Kildare

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The subway goes by as Mayo play New York in the Connacht championship

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Ryan McHugh celebrates his first goal against Dublin in the All-Ireland semi-final

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Galway’s Shane Walsh mounts Sligo’s Neil Ewing in the first ever gaelic football match on Sky

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Marc O’Se leaps for joy after Kerry seal their place in the All-Ireland final

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Eoghan O’Gara leaves the field with his daughter after the All-Ireland semi-final

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Eoghan O’Gara gets in a scuffle with Meath’s Michael Burke

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Mayo’s Colm Boyle and Donal Vaughan go for the ball against Cork’s Fintan Goold and Ian Maguire

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Aidan O’Shea scores a goal in the All-Ireland quarter-final against Cork

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Kerry and Mayo take part in the pre-match parade at the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick before the All-Ireland semi-final

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Batman gets his ticket to the All-Ireland final

The cult of Jimmy prepare for the final

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Co-captains Fionn Fitzgerald and Kieran O’Leary lift the Sam Maguire

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Mayo ‘keeper Robbie Hennelly tries to win the All-Ireland semi-final replay with an injury time free

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Kerry fans with Kieran Donaghy after the semi-final replay

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The hill was packed for Dublin vs Wexford

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A fan invaded the pitch during the All-Ireland semi-final replay

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Cavan’s Michael Argue and Westmeath’s David Duffy contest a high ball

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Paul Geaney scored a goal in the first minute of the All-Ireland final

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Eamonn Fitzmaurice celebrates with another All-Ireland winning manager, Jack O’Connor, after the final whistle

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Armagh and Cavan clash before the throw in of their Ulster championship tie

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The RTE panel did the ice bucket challenge in Croke Park

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There was some teak tough tackling in the All-Ireland quarter-final between Armagh and Donegal

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Jim McGuinness consoles Michael Murphy after the All-Ireland final

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