Meanwhile Clare are staying low but aiming high and Michael Murphy may have lost the benefit of doubt.

The HDC was too quick to endorse football’s 20m free for dissent from the sidelines.

With RTÉ's resources stretched, what are their chances of retaining the same stable of matches or increasing them when the very people they will make their submission to are their rivals?

No current manager has been as pointed in his criticisms of a current referee as Kieran McGeeney has about David Gough

The Rebels could set up a tasty A v B training match in Portugal this week. 

Claims that the media are opposed to the split season and are the only people who care about an August All-Ireland final are strange

An easier fix for hurling might be the hand-pass and policing it to the point of zero tolerance or changing the rule as former Tipperary defender Conor O’Donovan has campaigned

It would help if the start of the football and hurling leagues were staggered, as they were previously in 2024.

The claustrophobic nature of the inter-county season has plenty to do with the misalignment of fixtures

The obstacles to putting All-Irelands together will occupy minds among the champions