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.

AHAB and Nemesis.

ANOTHER week, another one-side hurling semi-final?

YOU will have no problem identifying the Cork people in your vicinity today.

THE scene: the Burlington Hotel, Dublin, last Saturday night.

ANOTHER piece of childhood vanished for a lot of people over the weekend with the death of former world snooker champion Alex Higgins.

TACTICS 8/10

THE WEEKEND of the British Open, which is detailed elsewhere in these pages, is a perfect cue for talk of tradition and the past, though the (doubtless) heroics of various slacks-wearing, v-neck sporting super-athletes need not detain us here.

EVENTUALLY you surprise yourself by saying 30 years ago about your own life.

A COUPLE of weeks ago we noticed that there was a very unfortunate metaphor being trotted around by political pundits as Fine Gael was convulsed by a leadership challenge.