For a while there, the dunes of Banna Strand were threatening to become for Kerry what the hill in Crusheen was for the Clare hurlers in 1995 or the Spartan-esque Bere Island for Cork’s footballers in 2010. 

Maybe it’s because we’re so used to seeing Kilkenny front and centre after most games but it seemed they spent an inordinate amount of time behind their dressing room door on Sunday.

In his report to annual convention last December, Down secretary Seán Óg McAteer took the opportunity to answer his critics after their protracted senior football managerial appointment process.

February 24, 2007. One of Irish sport’s greatest days. One of the GAA’s proudest too, as rugby and England were made welcome in Croke Park. 

If you didn’t know better, you might think Limerick and Cork predicted the league trouble ahead of them as early as last summer. That Limerick forecasted a seventh season in the doldrums of Division 1B. That Cork envisaged the probability of relegation from Division 1A for the second time in four seasons.

What’s most embarrassing about my sports injuries is they didn’t involve sports. 

Kilkenny find themselves in a parallel universe this Saturday evening. But for training, they don’t do floodlights.

Congress may be the GAA’s ultimate expression of democracy but self-awareness has never been its strongest suit.