Big Jim Larkin was one of the hits of the Galway St Patrick’s Day parade — after being rejected by the city that prides itself on his legacy.

SPORTS reporters are regularly chastised for resorting to cliché but it will require some truly heroic originality if reports from Drom and Terryland Park over the next couple of days aren’t riddled with references to aerial bombardment, dogged resistance, shoot on sight and the heat of battle.

Niall Murray