They required penalties to get the job done, but Ulster ultimately triumphed in the Allianz GAA Football Inter-Provincial final at the end of a pulsating battle with Connacht at Croke Park on Saturday night.

Paul Keane reports from Croke Park DOWN’S ODHRAN MURDOCK emerged as the eventual gamebreaker with the winning penalty at the end of a chaotic Croke Park shoot-out as Ulster claimed the interprovincial title.