Following the ‘bread alert’ weather warning of the past week, Allianz League games and just about every GAA pitch in the country fell victim to the unseasonably relentless snowstorm that swept over us with such vigour, writes Mike Quirke.

Gaelic football, and sport in general, can be all consuming for those of us at the coalface. Whether you are a player, coach, supporter or anything in between, we allow everything from training to games, and from stats to systems dominate our priorities all too often.

The Super Bowl interaction between coach and player was something to behold. For Foles to feel so empowered in that moment, and for a coach to be willing to relinquish control of such a hugely significant play call was remarkable, writes Mike Quirke.

With games falling victim to the inclement weather at the weekend, it further highlighted and exacerbated the craziness of this early season fixtures pile-up during a period most likely to be negatively affected by mother nature, writes Mike Quirke.

We’re all paying for Eir, because our national broadcaster didn’t have the foresight or desire to recognise and harness the obvious potential of the National League, writes Mike Quirke.

Could Cooper yet be forced to walk naked in atonement through the streets of Killarney, asks Mike Quirke.

In times past, pieces of magic may have drawn a few lines in a local paper’s match report the following week and been firmly consigned to history after that. But not anymore it seems, writes Mike Quirke.

I’ve always loved the quote “if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day; if you teach a man how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime”, writes Mike Quirke.