I met Nickey Brennan in the lift on the way out of Croke Park yesterday. “If ever a system needed to be redressed,” I said to him, “the set-up with the Galway club champions has to change.”

A SONG by the Clare minstrel, PJ Murrihy, about an old threshing mill brought back memories of days growing up in rural Ireland when the whine of a threshing machine echoed around the countryside. In those times, grain was harvested much later than now.

PJ Murrihy is on the bandstand getting his gig underway with one of his popular songs, ‘Eileen Alanna’.

IT was the veritable mother of all parties to celebrate a local hero with a heart of gold.