It’s not today or yesterday Joe Brolly came to the attention of your eagle-eyed columnist. Or eagle ears, maybe.

The gold-medal standard for finding the alternative view of an event suffering media overload remains Jimmy Breslin at the funeral of John Fitzgerald Kennedy 50 years ago.

Last week was the centenary of the birth of Albert Camus. The great man grew up to become the second-youngest winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1957 (can you guess the youngest?) for works such as The Outsider and The Myth of Sisyphus.

Frightening was the word used in description.

Graham Canty calls it a day over a pot of tea in a quiet hostelry in Cork city. No great hysteria. No blaze of score-settling: the last Cork man to lift Sam Maguire was calm and measured. In character.

Manchester, so much to answer for.

In the last couple of weeks some pretty tasty players have called it a day.

October. The time of year when, all over Ireland, county boards are holding their showpiece games: their county finals.

I see the Seanad referendum occurred last Friday, and there has been some criticism of the Taoiseach for not participating in a debate on same.

Almost as coveted as a Celtic Cross, here are Michael Moynihan’s 2013 championship awards