Because they know when he talks about attitude, he walked it too.

Defeat for East Kerry last Sunday means David Clifford is finished his football year early for once.

While the likes of FIFA procrastinate, the body count rises in Gaza.

It's 35 years since Alex Ferguson was on the verge of being sacked by Manchester United. Erik ten Hag won't get that same leeway. The world has changed. 

Though there are things we lose too, Clare has been a microcosm of the new calendar's benefits. 

The sport’s history has continued to throw up paradoxes. In both the 1890s and 1990s the IRFU greatly resisted professionalism yet since embracing it the sport has thrived and grown.

From using his hoops nous to help Jim Gavin crack the blanket defence code to founding, driving and folding an elite Irish basketball club, Mark Ingle reflects on his sporting journey.

By moving on from Stephen Kenny and hiring Heimir Hallgrimsson, the FAI dispensed with The Project and with it The Process in favour of The Pragmatist.

Purcell and Stockwell; English and Fox; Kelly and Roche; O’Gara-Stringer or O’Gara-O’Connell – bigger names but hardly better.

They’ve still got game. And so they still play it. All these years on.