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’.

These are the last days of the so-called advantage rule in Gaelic football and it is a death that should be celebrated.

Former ref insists action must be taken to offer officials more protection

There are those managers who control the lives of the men under their stewardship to such an extent that they can hardly think for themselves.

CONOR COUNIHAN believes the scorefest in Tralee yesterday was down to each set of defenders’ difficulties with interpretation of the tackle rule.