If there’s one thing as challenging as replacing a long-standing number one, it can be having them still around the place when there’s a new number one in town

Sport psychology should remain the obvious discipline in performance coaching but others can bring lots of value to a set-up too.

They say the measure of a coach isn’t necessarily what you and the players won together but how those players feel about you 10 years after you’ve gone your separate ways

Right now there are multiple teams that believe they can get in and win an All-Ireland. Mayo. Armagh. Galway. Tyrone. And tellingly, there’s almost as many contenders in Division Two

Burns has shown he is willing to lead. To take a stance. To put his head above the parapet. To speak his mind and for the association

The games will come thick and fast this summer with most of them in packed provincial grounds. And a lot of those games will be close and even with so little between so many teams

last Sunday against Meath showed that for now Cork are still the old Cork, and Clare are still Clare. One county underperforming, one maxing out

Prior to last weekend every team who had won a trophy at the top end of the men’s game had been an urban team – with never that urban area being a Galway team

Since Seán Kelly thankfully and brilliantly introduced All Irelands in both grades back in 2003, Kerry have won 11 of the 20 junior finals

It goes without saying that he’s the best footballer to have retired without winning an All Ireland; never has a team gone so close so often as that fine team he was part of