Coveted like a neighbour's wife, the Michael Moynihan End of Hurling Season Awards are back for 2012.

It’s about that time. Again.

In the last 10 minutes of yesterday’s All-Ireland final replay, Henry Shefflin went into the corner.

The desserts were being served in Langton’s of Kilkenny last week when your columnist got the nudge from a reporter from another newspaper.

If the late David Foster Wallace had been interested in hurling, instead of being some class of tennis fan who preferred to write about Roger Federer, he might have found his ideal subject yesterday in Croke Park.

Forget about that last pointed free for a few minutes.

Inter-county players.

Whether you say it’s all bunk or it’s a nightmare from which you’re trying to awake, there’s one thing you can count on when it comes to history.

The Coal Quay.

You would hardly mistake this corner of the newspaper for the social and personal page, but we couldn’t let this morning pass without sharing a classic ‘seen about town’ moment.