The Tipperary match-day cavalcade lost a vehicle this year. For years, Conor O’Mahony’s Skoda Superb pulled up the rear. A bad traveller, he was given special dispensation to drive, with Shane McGrath riding along for company.

As a purveyor of opinion about cars, I am not actually supposed to get involved in the selling of them in case it besmirch any reputation I might have by way of fairness, impartiality, and even-handedness, writes Declan Colley

IT was hardly blue murder, more a case of bureaucracy gone mad.