It’s almost that time of year again when clubs put forward motions to county conventions, but 2014 is slightly different.

GAA president Liam O’Neill has defended Barry Kelly in the wake of the Central Hearings Committee’s (CHC) decision not to punish Brian Cody for his remarks about the referee.

Nobody can deny the appeal of finishing the club season in the calendar year. It’s neat, it’s tidy, reports John Fogarty. 

If you don’t know about WhatsApp already, then maybe you should. It mightn’t have been the driving force behind Kerry and Kilkenny’s All-Ireland triumphs this year but it was part of their glue.

And so it goes. This romantic notion we had that dual players had a lasting future at the pinnacle of Gaelic games.

In yesterday’s Irish Examiner, we carried a transcript of Brian Cody’s absorbing interview with six journalists in the bar of the CityWest Hotel on Sunday morning.

If there’s one saving grace about Kerry winning yet another All-Ireland title, it’s that not everyone will race to replicate them.

Mirror, mirror on the wall — who’s the fairest of them all? Neither of yesterday’s finalists. And they will tell you that themselves.

At half-time of what is by now the legendary 2011 Dublin-Donegal semi-final, this writer fell into conversation with another from Ulster [not Donegal].

Thankfully, among the gazillions of garlands deservedly being flung at the feet of Kilkenny and Tipperary, there are no coins of sympathy.