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.

The problems facing professional sport in Australia may help illuminate a path forward for the Association here. 

As a Limerick man, this pairing is like Russia v China at the Olympics; I'm not sure I want either to win.

There are three Newton-type laws that apply to GAA appeals.