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.

There may never be a weekend like it again.

The outrage bus doesn’t discriminate. It takes all comers.

Cork did succeed in doing something on Sunday. They became a statistic.

Ah, August. That time of the year when referees are that bit slower to reach for the whistle and shy away from making the big calls.

As often is the case, context is required to fully understand James Horan’s unbridled rant against the Cork football management on Sunday.