It is hard to convey to the uninitiated the enormity of loss experienced by Killarney, Irish basketball and even as loud and wide a city as his adopted home of Las Vegas with the passing of the life-force that was Paudie O’Connor.

Pet O’Connell goes hill walking in Dingle, and brushes up on her Irish language skills while she’s there.

And there you were, thinking you’d never see him or Westmeath again, when who springs up in Croke Park and on your screen but himself. 

The best of what's on the box from April 13-19. Simon Cowell is back on Britain’s Got Talent.

The loss of Páidí Ó Sé brought a fittingly huge response from far beyond his natural environs of Kerry and gaelic football.