“Into the face of the young man... there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that a hurling fan is about to talk Gaelic football.”

James O’Reilly and his pals on the Ballincollig junior B football team had an idea.

You hear about it occasionally, an occupational hazard for inter-county coaches — players who’ve seen it all, who expect innovation and novelty from the moment they sit in the dressing room.

If he had gotten down to Camp Four that day and had heard the Koreans were in trouble, chances are he would have gone back up to try to help them. He was just that kind of person.

Ronan O’Gara was frank as ever yesterday, stating plainly that Munster simply didn’t take their opportunities in the Heineken Cup defeat to Ulster last Sunday.

There must be incredible coaching talent in Ulster if they’re able to dispense with Brian McLaughlin.

I might as well admit it early doors and put it up on the table.

It’s Joan O’Flynn’s last weekend as president of the Camogie Association.

It says something when the most bizarre GAA story of the week was neither the stream of oddities from Waterford, nor the confrontation involving Anthony Daly and a patron at the end of Kilkenny-Dublin last Sunday (you have to love the term ‘confrontation’ there, suggesting as it does a face-off between two Marvel Comics superheroes.

Rackard was the man who revived hurling in Wexford.