Saturday night, the first day of February, an orange weather warning across the country and still 26,000 fans turn out to watch the first game of the National League under lights.

Leaving Croke Park, I am laden with the strangest of feelings.

Five final questions. Stupid or not, their relevance will be decided tomorrow

What a brilliant game of football.

Match, mismatch.

“I’m not afraid of any man” — so said Philo Beddoe, the Clint Eastwood character in ‘Every which way but Loose’.

Have managers lost the essence of their role? One of the great misjudgements of modern management is that everything that matters must be measured and that if something cannot be measured, it does not matter.

Boom goes the cloak of invincibility! Or was it more like a whimper?

Tyler Hamilton in his best-selling book The Secret Race informed us about the detail Lance Armstrong and his team put into preparation.

Authenticity is who you are.