On the way home from the Gaelic Grounds yesterday, I was snaking my way out the Ennis Road in my car when I saw Conor Hayes at the side of the road.

Clare boss Davy Fitzgerald admitted that Ger Loughnane’s scathing post-Leinster final criticism of Galway did his team no favours yesterday.

THE television programme on RTÉ on Monday night At Home with the Clearys was a reminder of the megalomania of the late Fr Michael Cleary, a man who was always happy to be in the limelight as long as he was telling other people what to do.