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.

THE discussion about fencing Croke Park rumbles on and on, flooding the airwaves and the papers, rolling out, spilling across, very much like a... well, like a pitch invasion.