You could call it a failure, Eamon O’Shea’s time as manager of Tipperary, if you consider the outcome the only important part of any process. He wouldn’t see it like that, though he wishes he could have done just a little bit more.

The scoreline at Whyte’s sale of sport and entertainment memorabilia on Monday could be summed up as GAA one, rugby nil. And James Bond trumped Madonna.

It’s become a feature of both Éamonn Fitzmaurice’s and Jim Gavin’s reigns that they tend not to select Under 21 players for big matches. It begs the question, why not?

SO here he is at the All Ireland press conference in Langton’s, a man utterly at ease with himself and the universe.

He’s 68 now but as you can guess Liam Griffin’s passion for sport and business is still there. The desire — no, the desperation — to see Wexford back on a hurling pedestal.

Twenty years ago, Loughnane’s Clare emerged from nowhere to set the summer alight. Are we there again, waiting for a bolter to win the All Ireland, a team to come from the clouds and cut a swathe through a mediocre field?

Leinster chairman John Horan has given his support to the idea of managers exclusively appointed to positions within their own counties and clubs.

Eamonn Fitzmaurice believes Paul Galvin has the management skills to be a Kerry manager at some stage.

NO winners here.

UNDER the Croke Park spotlight, we watched Dublin maintain their 100% league record and, for the second time in three games, Kerry’s Jack O’Connor and his management team leave with positives but no points.

CORK’S All-Ireland SFC winning manager Conor Counihan has accused the media of sensationalising disciplinary issues in the GAA.

KILKENNY may have been starved of senior camogie success of late, but midfielder Ann Dalton has never found herself short of accumulating honours.

Saturday night’s events in Semple Stadium have left Cork hurling fans not so much angry – though they are a bit of that – as fretful and worried about the future and they are trotting out various remedies to get back on the winning trail.

THESE are difficult days for Tipperary manager Liam Sheedy, as the day of destiny, Sunday’s first-round Munster SHC match against Cork, draws ever closer.

CORK manager Conor Counihan is reluctant to draw comparisons between the Rebel County’s current success at U21 level and their monopoly of the grade in the 1980s that led to a golden period for the senior side.

All-Ireland champions Wexford, with five winners, topped the list of awards winners at the Energise Sport Camogie All Stars in association with O’Neills, which took place tonight at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin.

We’ve got still more anger directed at the broadcast media. This time, it’s RTE’s News Room getting a couple of deserved brickbats. There’s genuine anger at the haphazard approach to crowd safety after big games in Croker. Cork fans seem more puzzled than angry with their footballers and management for the way they collapsed against Kerry in the All Ireland senior football final. And referee David Coldrick? Opinion on his handling of the big game is divided 50 / 50. Probably a sign that he got it just about right.

THERE’S no place for last year’s captain, Pat Mulcahy, after the Cork hurling selectors yesterday trimmed the panel to 30 players.

THIS could have all been so different. This September evening, he might have been sifting through another year of unfulfilled Tyrone promise, rather than holding court in Carrickmore as the pitch quakes under the weight of a ravenous tribe.