Last week Kieran McGeeney provided an apocalyptic vision of the future landscape of the GAA.

THE routine for writing this column has remained largely unchanged for the past decade.

THE announcement of the county team was always a source of discussion and debate when I was growing up.

THE benefits of sheer bloody-minded hard work were graphically illustrated to me last November when I tried to ride a bike over Torr Head.

2011.

A BOOK bought for me as a birthday present a few years ago bears an inscription which says: “I saw this and thought of you.”