When in Rome, do as the Romans do. So, while on holiday in Madrid a few years ago, I did as the Madrilenos do and spent a night in the Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas watching bulls getting slowly but surely stabbed to death.

A school team once failed to control their snorts of laughter when a PE teacher informed them that the secret to success in football could be boiled down to one word: “Hard work.”

Watching Americans watching golf can be an unsettling and sobering experience.

Kicking the ball.

‘The bicycles go by in twos and threes —

A few years ago the good people in Croke Park got so incensed about one of these columns that they sent a rather spicy letter of rebuke to my newspaper.

At an Armagh training session back in the day, joint-manager Brian McAlinden and Kieran McGeeney ended up glaring at each other.

In the not too distant future both Casement Park and Páirc Uí Chaoimh will be bulldozed to the ground and completely rebuilt.

My first ever training session with the Glen U12s was a slightly terrifying experience.

As the Omagh U21 squad made their way into the changing rooms at Creggan, I jumped to the swift and firm conclusion that they were going to lose their Ulster Club semi-final game against Cullyhanna.