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.

THE GAA’S director of games administration and player welfare, Feargal McGill, has talked down the possibility of a return to the National Leagues being started in autumn.

MICHAEL MURPHY holds his hand up. That’s him on Twitter — mmurphy95. The latest inter-county star to join the social networking phenomenon.