What will be telling is just departed Dublin manager Jim Gavin next step. Does he withdraw from public life, J D Salinger-style, never to practice his hard-to-define sorcery again? Or, does he do the circuit? asks Colin Sheridan.

Steven Spielberg wanted to direct a film based on the reclusive J D Salinger's novel Catcher In The Rye, but his offer was never even relayed to the author, according to a memoir that lifts the lid off Salinger’s secretive life.