Watching last Wednesday’s Munster U21 final on TG4 in the company of my better half’s father proved a useful exercise.

Cast your mind back to March 16 this year, when Tyrone deservedly ended Dublin’s winning run in the national league in Croke Park.

“We’re playing those mind games together, Pushing the barriers, planting seeds”.

The IRFU’s accounts don’t look too pretty at the moment but if they’re looking for a quick buck, they might make a call to Croke Park.

Bringing in a sports psychologist was a master move by Limerick manager John Allen

Colm O’Rourke is usually the safest pair of hands on The Sunday Game, but he crossed the line in an attempt to make a humorous point about the size of Kildare’s players a few weeks back.

The rulebook will have done nothing these past 36 hours to shield James McGrath from the torrent of abuse he’s received for sending off Pa Horgan on Sunday.

At 8:38 yesterday morning, the phone chimed in receipt of a text from an eloquent press colleague of Dublin persuasion.

The light may be getting dimmer on this Kilkenny team but they are raging wildly against it.

You’ve probably heard the GAA’s “Nothing Beats Being There” radio ad in recent weeks and the Tipperary woman speak of how she and her family were there to see Liam Sheehy’s men stop Kilkenny’s ‘drive for five’.