And then there were two. The death of Fr Peter Quinn is the removal of another link to Mayo’s back-to-back All-Ireland winning side of 1950 and ’51. Now only two remain — full-back Paddy Prendergast who lives in Tralee, and centre forward Padraig Carney, a doctor in the US.

On A lonely bench at Belgrave Park in Rathmines he sat one night. All night long.

Last year, when I met Bill O’Herlihy for the first and only time just days before his last broadcast anchoring the RTÉ football panel, he made one of those characteristic self-depreciating comments as we were finishing up.

The 1970 Hurling League final is a game remembered for all the wrong reasons

Sixty-one years ago, Mayo kids were told to get used to the feel of the Sam Maguire.

It’s gone down as one of the greatest goals of all time.

SO DID Mickey Harte and the gang of six or seven or eight cross the line this week? Until Hawk-Eye is finally installed and working right, I suppose we won’t know. We certainly don’t want to start a family feud by asking the umpires.

IT has to be said that in the world of GAA broadcasting the late Michael O’Hehir left behind a distinguished pair of shoes. O’Hehir was a special fragment of our summer Sundays for what seemed like forever.

RICHARD DUNNE, whose early football career was pock-marked with erratic off-pitch behaviour, knows how to turn a situation around.

Toby Balding had lots of runners in the Grand National during his 48-year training career and won the race twice, but nothing could ever compare with what happened on the big day in 1989.

FOR many sports the arrival of a new year signals a time for reflection on the achievements and disappointments of the previous 12 months.