You won’t have many in Donegal arguing Declan Bonner should be talking about things other than Sky Sports this week.

Sometimes you can have all the facts on your side and still lose an argument.

Rarely does a day pass in this country without a wonderfully evocative image appearing in the national papers from some sporting event or other and yesterday’s shot in these pages of Patrick Cronin striking the sliotar amidst the floodlights and flurries of snow during Cork and Waterford’s pre-season meeting in Mallow certainly ticked that particularly box.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON admitted last month that he would be “devastated to miss the Ryder Cup.”