I’ve been working the best part of this last week in Boston. One of the first people I bumped into at the annual Boston Irish Fest last weekend in the Irish Cultural Centre was the great box player, my neighbour Seamus Begley from Baile na bPoc in West Kerry.

Our columnist examines the reasons behind the ever-increasing tendency of county players to jump ship to the USA in the middle of the championship season

It’s the question we’ve been asking all week, isn’t it? Whether Dublin are going to continue with the sunshine football or else resort to a more pragmatic game based on modern realities.

When you say it’s gonna happen “now”

With the National League, it’s always a question of interpretation.

It struck me while watching the Kerry v Cork game from the terrace in Austin Stack Park recently that there is a huge gulf between the football being played out on the field and the supporters expectations of same.

ALLIANZ FL DIVISION 1: Cork v Donegal

When I think of where the Kildare footballer is now are now compared to where he was last August, I’m reminded of the phrase first popularised by the cigarette brand Virginia Slims back in the 60s — “You’ve come a long way baby”.

For all their dominance of the game in Kerry and their back-to-back Munster titles there is sense that Dr Crokes must seize the opportunity and give their followers at least one more day out.

I was reminded yesterday in Killarney of the scene in Tim Burton’s classic 1994 film about the infamous B-Movie director, Ed Wood, where Mr Feldman at Warner Brothers Studios rings Wood and tells him that his latest offering was “the worst film I ever saw”...