THE old cricket verse, At Lord’s, puts it better than we ever could: O my Hornby and my Barlow long ago.

THREE cheers for the man who suggested, long before Cork and Kerry even took the field in the Munster football championship this year, that a ‘Justice for Paul’ campaign be started to save time.

THERE is a seismic shift occurring in the realms of the GAA.

AND SO to Waterford on a sunny weekend. We spent most of Saturday afternoon at a GAA club function in the Crystal City, which was conducted half al fresco and half al taverna, if you’ll forgive the pidgin Italian. The al fresco part was the most enjoyable, given the variety of delights on offer.

NOEL Connors can go back. Maybe not way back, but far enough. He can recall watching the Waterford hurlers in 1998, though that’s a pretty prosaic description to use. Idols would be closer.

ASSUMPTIONS.

THE INK in the obituarists’ pens dried up at about the time Séan Óg O hAilpín encountered Declan Fanning underneath the covered stand in Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday.

HARD TO imagine, but we met someone during the week who actually spoke some sense about the free-to-air debate.

YOU MAY have noticed last week that Minister for Communications, Eamon Ryan, is thinking of designating Heineken Cup games as ‘free-to-air’ events, which means that Irish viewers would be able to watch same without going through Sky and having to pay.

NOT A good day for southern reds all round, then.