TRY telling Jason Ryan that managing a county team is the next best thing to playing and you’ll get the predictable response from someone still active at club level.

MICK O’DWYER’S old pupils in Laois showed in Dr Cullen Park on Saturday that they haven’t forgotten what they learned from him and that they are maintaining progress under one of his former players in Kerry.

ANYBODY with even a passing interest in Gaelic games would find it amusing to hear Meath talk about their ‘hopes’ of beating Carlow in tomorrow’s opening round of the GAA Leinster football championship in Croke Park were they unaware of the fall-out from their stormy League meeting with Dublin in Parnell Park almost a month ago.