THE departure of Seán Óg O hAilpín from the inter-county scene is one of those events that comes along to remind you that you’re getting older, not younger.

EVERY year we have them.

EVERY county final exists on two levels.

FIRST stop the Bronx.

AT TIMES of turmoil like these, we usually go to Breandán O hEithir for consolation.

OCTOBER on the horizon.

Monday lunchtime, September 6

Thus Tipperary yesterday.

JUST LAST week Tony Blair visited Ireland to publicise his autobiography.

THE late Gerald Goldberg, Jewish Lord Mayor of Cork, lawyer and politician, was once asked rather pointedly by an interviewer if he had ever experienced prejudice in Ireland.