The youngest in a family must expect ghosts, writes PM O'Sullivan. Moling Morrissey sits looking at a photograph of six brothers, lined up and arrayed in hurling jerseys. Pat… John… Eddie… Mick… Himself… Luke… Himself… The only one left.

The door closed today in Mardyke Street and the best-known medic in Irish sport finally put his feet up.

Following an exhaustive eight-year process, the project is awaiting final approval from Central Council next month.

Michael Duignan has said he will continue working for RTÉ if elected chairman of Offaly County Board.

Player of the Year awards have also been named for the Joe McDonagh, Christy Ring, Nickey Rackard, and Lory Meagher Cups.

Winner of eight All-Ireland medals, part of a famed hurling dynasty, Eoin Larkin has been one of the finest forwards of his generation. He spoke with PM O'Sullivan.

I was very pleased with the outcome of the GAA Special Congress in the splendid facilities at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Glen Rovers face Imokilly in tomorrow’s Cork senior hurling final, the kind of bald covering statement that covers a century-plus of history.

Derek McGrath joined Justin McCarthy and Davy Fitzgerald on WLRFM earlier today in hailing the Stradbally man after informed Liam Cahill at the weekend that his inter-county career has concluded.

By the summer of 1990, All-Ireland football champions Cork had Kerry’s number. So much so that Rebel fans were yelling ‘lock the gates’ as they dismembered the Kingdom in the provincial decider in Cork. However a bigger challenge loomed for Billy Morgan, Larry Tompkins, & Co — Meath. In his new book on Cork’s historic double season, Adrian Russell reveals how Colm O’Neill turned from peripheral to pivotal figure on the road to GAA history.

Ian Ring is a Cork-based music producer, who has recently released ‘Rise’, the debut single from hisBoku project on Soul Jamz Records.

Almost 30 years ago, the Reids were the first family in Ballyhale to get miniature goalposts.

Two of tomorrow’s provincial finalists lost the central figures in their hurling histories within six years of each other. Mick Mackey of Limerick passed away in 1982, while Wexford’s Nicky Rackard died in 1976.

Whether you are a hurler, hurling fan, hurling coach, hurling administrator, whatever aspect of the hurling world you exist in, you tend to be in a minority.

The property supplement to a recent issue of the Irish Examiner contained a piece by Tommy Barker about the sale of Monkstown Castle House — ‘House of the week’ (June 8) — home of the late Charlie Hennessey and Abby Scott.

“The column is where the stars of the 20th-century sports page usually conducted their business, and even with longform now in flower, there are still those scribes who feel the column’s magnetic pull.

It’s summer and Sunday evenings in local pubs are dominated by hurling talk. Common themes everywhere I would expect; the player that isn’t up to that level and they’ve ‘always known it’, the new player who proved them right, ‘they have IT’, the mad decisions on the line, and always, the awe at the moments of brilliance in all hurling games.

If the motives of Cork’s GAA executive were as advertised – to stimulate passionate debate on the state of the county championships – then the past week has been hugely energising for the grassroots.

Option A – the so-called April/August option, was overwhelmingly chosen for the Cork county senior and intermediate championship format from 2020 onwards.

Westmeath boss Joe Quaid says the GAA only care about the highest tier of hurling and has backed calls for all league finals to take place in Croke Park.

Cork chairwoman Tracey Kennedy was last night accused of “hiding behind a court injunction” when refusing to answer questions on the decision to terminate the employment of senior administrator Diarmuid O’Donovan.

Not to overanalyse the All-Ireland final last Sunday week or anything . . . but . . . can we just talk about the very end of the game, when Joe Canning was doing his best to imitate the Grinch and steal Christmas from all of Limerick?

I thought it was all over for trains and GAA supporters, and I thought I had the exact moment the romance had ended: when Cork decided to go by bus to Dublin.

The art of goalscoring — from Cork’s old machine-gun fire to the heavy artillery of Tipperary — and the free spirits like Lar Corbett are in danger of being drowned in a sea of points. What to do? Change the sliotar? Award four points for the goal? Enda McEvoy reports

Glen Rovers 4-20 Ballymartle 1-9: Glen Rovers safely navigated their way into the third round of the Cork SHC at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday.

How many years until the last match report is carried in a print newspaper? asks Enda McEvoy.

Cork will oppose the Club Players’ Association motion on the recording of votes at this weekend’s annual Congress.

Christy Ring doesn’t often spring to mind on Six Nations weekends, but the great one’s remark about the GAA being half-dressed without a strong Tipperary could be easily tweaked for France, such is its importance to rugby as another championship dawns and Ireland make the trip to Paris unburdened by the terror of old.

David Burke will bid to play himself into the annals of Galway GAA after it was confirmed he will continue as captain of the hurlers as they try to retain the All-Ireland title.

“I wouldn’t like to count all the All-Ireland medals in this room,” remarked Joan O’Flynn, Camogie Association chief executive, as she began proceedings at a lunch honouring Rena Buckley’s record-breaking career at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday.

A survivor of Waterford’s last All-Ireland win in 1959, Austin Flynn manned the Déise square at a time when his chief responsibility was to ‘protect the goalkeeper from being killed’. His policing was thorough, even when assigned the cases of greats such as Nickey Rackard, Liam Devaney, and Christy Ring, who became a great friend as much as foe.

The cancellation of this year’s interpros looks to have sounded the death-knell for a once-great GAA competition, writes John Fogarty.

Cork GAA is mourning the death yesterday at the age of 92 of legendary hurler Willie John Daly, who was the last surviving member of the three-in-a-row team of the 1950s who starred in the attack alongside Christy Ring.

A debate has opened up over who should be honoured by having stands named after them at the €70m revamped Pairc Ui Chaoimh.

A unique collection of ex-Taoiseach and GAA legend Jack Lynch’s personal, political and sporting belongings is available for close inspection in his native Cork for the first time.