ERICH SEGAL died recently, classics professor and author of ‘Love Story’.

IRISH rugby supporters’ long wait for the Grand Slam goes on, following the late defeat by Scotland last weekend in Cardiff.

GIVEN that it was Brian O’Driscoll’s 100th cap last Saturday, and all of a sudden everybody has a Brian O’Driscoll story, we thought we’d share ours.

THERE are a lot of dressing-room doors looming large in our mind this weather.

THE image isn’t well-known to hurling followers.

GOD, you’d have thought we were past all that at this stage.

IF YOU’RE looking for a single word to sum up something that requires lengthy description in English, chances are you’ll find it in another tongue.

TUESDAY, and the Killiney Castle Hotel for the announcement of the Irish rugby team to play Italy in Croke Park tomorrow.

FIRST things first. The next time Munster play Northampton, in the Heineken Cup quarter-finals, there better not be fog.

THIS COLUMN doesn’t share that much with William Goldman, the acclaimed screenwriter responsible for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men and the Princess Bride.