Jamie Coughlan felt like as if they could keep running forever.

So, Liam O’Neill thinks Gaelic football isn’t “boring” after all.

For years they’ve been the most identifiable players with hurling’s most recognised counties.

And then there was just one — if Ronan Clarke gets back at all.

The summer after his departure from Manchester United, Roy Keane gave a riveting two-hour talk to the Cork hurlers who were then bidding for a third All-Ireland in a row.

Sometimes it snows in April, a man once sang, and this past week, Ronan Rafferty has got to know just how true that is.

We’ll hear it all week, hopefully in the ceremony in the log cabin afterwards too: he learned.

Ten years ago, almost to the week, Earl Woods gave his assessment on how his son had just won his third US Masters.

All these years later and so much about them remains the same.

Jasper McElroy couldn’t believe what he was hearing. Neither could Paudie O’Connor.