We’ve forgotten about it while they laugh about it now but back when Conor O’Shea was playing, an unimpressed George Hook publicly touted the theory that O’Shea must have been the subject of a frontal lobotomy, such was the poverty of his vision and decision-making.

It’s hard to know what’s the most daunting challenge in world sport right now but whatever it is, it exists at the upper echelons of men’s tennis.

Over the Christmas while he was back home for a few weeks, Tadhg Kennelly popped over to Cork and then to Limerick for a couple of days to give Ronan O’Gara, Tomás O’Leary and a number of their other Munster colleagues some pointers on how to improve catching the high ball.

MAYBE he thinks differently now, but the day before the most wonderful of games in a wonderful weekend’s Heineken Cup rugby, Conor O’Shea expressed the view to this writer in a Galway hotel that home field advantage in rugby was totally exaggerated

At 21 he still couldn’t break onto the club’s senior starting line-up — in fact he’d play senior championship for Kilkenny before he’d play it with his club

YOU could call it one of the great White Coat scenarios in all of sport.

HE’S a granddad now, as well as a Senator, but as he enters his 60th year on the planet, Eamonn Coghlan is showing no signs of slowing down.

SENATOR Eamonn Coghlan believes his fellow world champion gold medallist Sonia O’Sullivan has got it badly wrong by insisting only A standard athletes will be sent to the London Olympics.