I was talking to a man last Friday and he said something that brings a smile to my face every time I’ve thought about it since.

Sky Sports. Maybe it’s just me, but whenever I see those two words, a large, neon-lit ‘£40’ immediately flashes inside my head.

In response to the AFL sending an aboriginal International Rules squad to Ireland, the GAA has been presented with a wonderful opportunity to respond in kind.

There is one simple reason why David Moyes should never have got the manager’s job at Manchester United.

Although it mightn’t seem like it at first, but today’s column is about Rory McIlroy.

I’m an ideas man.

He will be an old style uachtarán. He will be a figurehead and an ambassador.

It’s about 9.30am on Sunday morning and our 16-seater bus has turned left onto the Via Borgo Palazzo in Bergamo.

If Dublin win, Gavin’s spirit for adventure will be a cause for celebration.

Unlike many of my journalistic colleagues, I welcomed the news Davy Fitzgerald hadn’t attended the Clare press night which was held before Sunday’s All-Ireland final.