In this edition of Week That Was, we head back through the GAA history books to three very different moments associated with the middle of September. We return to the extraordinary 1982 All-Ireland Football Final between Kerry and Offaly and look at the unlikely part played in the drama by the Lowry family — a story that goes beyond one of the most famous finishes in Championship history. Then we travel much further back to mark the breakthrough of the first Connacht team to bring an All-Ireland title west across the Shannon, at a time when the established order in Hurling looked very different. And finally, why did the third Sunday in September become synonymous with All-Ireland Football Final day? We trace the origins of one of the great dates in the GAA calendar and discover when the tradition really began.
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