I tried meditation. Didn't work. Set my mind a-whirring. Could you play both Parrott and Ferguson up front against Czechia? Will Watford make the play-offs? Surely there’s one more in Limerick’s hurlers?

On Wednesday and in a world’s first, Australia implemented a social media ban for under-16s. Ireland is watching closely. 

That line came to mind when, as so many migrants do, I had to tune in online to a funeral from home of a neighbour, and GAA club stalwart

If I was advising the GAA on the AFL’s scouting of talent, three things come to mind.

GOODFELLAS is one of the great gangster movies. The central character, played by Ray Liotta, is Henry Hill. Hill was in fact a real-life mobster associated with the Lucchese crime syndicate, one of the five Mafia families of New York.

Don’t be fooled by the faux scientific arguments made by organisers of the Enhanced Games/

I have spent a lifetime in universities. At their worst, academics tell students what to think and what to write; at their best, how to think and how to write. The latter, how to write, is an endangered skill.

It is hard to see how any case for continuing with the Allianz sponsorship can be justified by the GAA to its wider membership.

Who knows whether in 300 years' time we will still be racing at Newmarket or Fairyhouse?

Even though it was written 50 years ago, lines from Norman Mailer's The Fight still resonate.