In 1998 Clare were reigning Munster and All Ireland champions when they headed to Thurles to play a raw if promising young Cork team. 

Caitlin Clark not only puts the ball in the basket but she puts bums on seats like no one else.

Is the GAA and its calendar any better for no marquee games on the most celebrated national holiday of all?

Andy Farrell's side travel to London this weekend.

Everyone remembers where they were and who they were with on 3/2 when they learned the news that the finest in Gaeldom – an abstract, sometimes even mawkish construct but apt in each of these cases – had fallen.

Their task? Well, normally the word ‘develop’ or ‘development’ is synonymous with ‘football committee’ but not in this instance.

League games between the pair might not be what makes Kerry and Dublin special, but they can make winter nights special.

So how tuned into it have you been, really?In the States this is when the masses flick a switch. With the Super Bowl over, interest in the NBA will go from casual to keen.

The more he read and studied he learned it should be more about games, problems, problem-solving, asking questions.

The Ireland women's team are caught between FIBA and protestors over a fixture they don't want to play