It seems an odd one at first.

Michael Collins: The game’s over,Harry. Lost again.

Incredible. Almost comical. Predictable. Frightening. Phenomenal.

In the public memory, he’ll always be a moment.

When it comes to the final whistle of championship games, John Mullane and Eoin Kelly are a photographer’s dream.

The man behind the Ross O’Carroll-Kelly phenomenon Paul Howard has gone back to his roots to finally give his obsession with the force of nature that is Roy Keane a voice — through the man’s loyal sidekick Triggs.

Sorry, but we’ve no chance now. And looking back, we never had a chance.

It might be an odd thing to say with the Euros about to commence in Poland and the Ukraine but we can’t think of a European venue that will host greater sport than that old bowl, Páirc Uí Chaoimh, this month.

‘Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.’

It shouldn’t even be close.