Anyone else bouncing and crashing in these strange days like Skippy on rollerskates? Tell me that’s normal.

We take for granted, at this stage, the wisdom available to us five days a week on Home and Away. But we will not go far wrong taking our life lessons from Summer Bay.

There was an important landmark in a developing horror on Thursday.

It’s a known addiction. Dreams of bigger windows, terrazzo floors, cupboards with no handles so visitors won’t know they are cupboards at all.

THE ban on talking sport in the office can’t reach Cork soon enough.

“We are time’s subjects and time bids be gone,” wrote Shakespeare — the other one, not Craig at the King Power Stadium.

Not long ago, I watched er indoors walk just ahead, along a path in the park, and reveal herself utterly.

Early in Wednesday night’s Premier Sports broadcast, Eamon Dunphy settled on a key fact to underline the crisis facing a proud club. He’d repeat it several times throughout the evening: “Everton have never been relegated.”

Nostalgia is bigger than it used to be. A great fear of what’s coming down the tracks has turned the world towards the good old days.

Larry Ryan picks out five things we probably knew already from Ireland's draw with Denmark...

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A look back at the magical moments from this year.

The rise of Gaelic for Mothers and Others can benefit the next generation of girls too, writes Larry Ryan

Balancing the highs and lows of John Delaney's tenure as FAI CEO.

Since mind games aren’t what they used to be, let’s give thanks for the ingredient that can make this title race great: Liverpool’s ‘12th Man’, writes Larry Ryan

You’d have to consider it a state of emergency. Corkness has been declared missing, writes Larry Ryan.

Larry Ryan: Fashioning narratives out of the week’s big big game

A landmark week for the ‘fastest field game in the world’ — and for one of the slowest, writes Larry Ryan

Amanda Stapleton has described the devastating moment she was diagnosed with a high-grade, inoperable brain tumour — and expressed her gratitude to the Borrisoleigh and GAA communities for giving her a “will to fight for as much time as I can get”.

We have been here before in this country, says Larry Ryan.

Here's your lunchtime bulletin.

Theo Foley smiled from the pages of other people’s books, had cameos in other people’s stories.

It’s unfair to call it the Gary Neville era, but Valencia’s ‘chaotic’ period appears to have ended.

Here's your lunchtime bulletin.

Here's your morning bulletin.

Your morning bulletin.

A great power was given to Roy Keane. A power that can be dispensed in a look. By just making the face.

It is an audacious switcharoo that John Kiely has attempted. In an experiment rarely attempted in these fraught circumstances, the Limerick boss has turned all known precedent on its head, writes Larry Ryan.

Miller a GAA star — even in his civies

Former Tyrone star Owen Mulligan has suggested the county narrowed their Omagh pitch for the Super 8 clash with Dublin in preparation for this weekend’s showdown with Donegal.

The lads from Sky, who landed on a mercy mission Thursday, reminded me why I’ll never go to a World Cup, writes Larry Ryan

Michael Ryan wasn’t about to make any big calls about his future from a place of dejection.

The first World Cup event of the rowing season began yesterday in Belgrade. Having wintered together in Australia and New Zealand, two Skibbereen double-acts now face very different challenges. Gary and Paul O’Donovan are on top of the world to be shot down, while Shane O’Driscoll and Mark O’Donovan must summon the appetite to survive the biggest test of their careers.

Cork must use their pace to go after Tipperary early on Sunday and turn the Thurles crowd against an unsettled home team, says former Rebels star Diarmuid O’Sullivan.