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.

It’s always been one of my favourite anecdotes, but given an apparent lack of relevance to groin strains and lengthy suspensions, I’d never expected to be able to air it in this corner of the paper.

There’s a standing joke here on the sportsdesk when it comes to the Fitzgibbon Cup weekend: tell the photographers to turn their backs on the action out on the field and focus on the personalities in the crowd.