How can you separate them, these twin pillars of Irish life that came in and took over?

Could a time come where the eulogising stops, the breathless evangelising dries up, the songs of praise die down? In other words, could hurling ever become like Gaelic football?

This generation’s veneration of live sport means it feels like cheating to steal your fix of drama via a nighttime highlights package.

When was the last time we were as energised by 48 hours of drama in the grand old game?

Even the most social of all footballers, Paul Pogba, is turning back to TV

Everything we know about the sport’s fine traditions suggested Dublin’s efforts to avoid sanction would hardly stop short of subpoenaing Susie Dent from Dictionary Corner to the DRA. Instead, they fessed up and punished themselves

This week’s news of the broadcast deal to show up to 66 Women’s Super League games each season on Sky and BBC surely brings designer washbags a step closer for all. But for now, a living wage would be a start.

Maybe Jose recognises how far he too has drifted from the days when he was football’s great outsider

Videotapes. Life bookmarked. An obligatory Euro ‘88. France-Brazil from ‘86. Tipp-Limerick ‘89. And one marked ‘Baggio — Do not tape over’.

Banter only became a dangerous force when the Saint stopped supervising it after Saint and Greavsie was dropped