For fans over a certain age following a World Cup, you’re never really watching just that World Cup.

Turns out he can’t get everything right.

At 27, Paudie Kissane still hadn’t played Championship football for Cork. But he retired with one All-Ireland title, two Munster crowns, three National Leagues and an All Star award. And now he’s plotting Kerry’s downfall.

The same day the Cork hurlers played their last game under Denis Walsh, the Limerick footballers met Offaly in the curtain-raiser in the Gaelic Grounds.

Well before last Saturday Jamesie O’Connor was a Sky Sports man.

You could hardly call the face-off between Westmeath and Kildare the £100 million game like they tend to call the English Championship play-off final in Wembley, but it’s actually hurling’s equivalent.

He’s the father of Podge Collins, one of the brightest young players in the GAA, but Colm Collins is his own man too. He’s the manager of the county’s senior footballers who are aiming to shake their tag as bridesmaids in Munster, starting tonight

For a guy whose skills you can only admire, doesn’t Cristiano Ronaldo make himself so hard to like?

Watching Des Bishop travelling and breaking China the other week, it struck us just how far a certain sport has travelled as well.

mickey Linden’s sporting career was as long as it was illustrious but two All-Ireland titles and three Ulster crowns don’t tell half the story about a man who, along with Peter Canavan, was probably the most electrifying inside forward in the country during the 1990s.