It’s funny how this whole thing works.

He doesn’t mind admitting it now but there were several sleepless nights for Limerick senior hurling manager TJ Ryan last week, nights in which he tossed and turned, wondering if he had done everything right in the run-up to Sunday’s Munster championship semi-final against Tipperary in Semple Stadium.

IN order to write another book without the aid of an advance, and to raise expensive children without the aid of a co-parent, my household is stuffed with paying guests, and is starting to resemble a United Colours of Benetton advert. Except scruffier.

JIM Bob Morrison wonders if it was all a dream.