Jackie Connolly had a deep love and affection for Cork hurling

Will I pay to watch a Gaelic football match on GAA GO this year? I’ve been pondering this — not so much an existential question, as a practical one

It is a busy time for the Excitement Police, the folk out there who are dampening down, who are keeping a lid on, who are reining in

If were looking for the spirit of adventure, it appears to have been applied most readily in devising elaborate new ways to miss a penalty

Over on ITV, they might have men going at it, in Keano and Graeme Souness.

Do we need to drag Con Houlihan into things one more time to remind us that going to the World Cup involves missing the World Cup?

Is there a freedom revolution underway? Could this be a rebellion against the great industrialisation of sports coaching?

Is the true reality of what happens after kick-off gradually becoming less interesting than the soap operas and narratives grafted on afterwards by flies on selective walls?

Chrissie Buckley and those whose names weren't given the air to echo down ages. But from footnotes to front pages, there's now room for a new history 

At the end of the day, the mysteries of language and sport’s contribution to our everyday dialects remain fascinating. For me.