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St Brigid’s became the fifth Dublin team in a row to win the Féile Peil Division 1 final after a comprehensive 1-6 to 0-0 victory over Portlaoise in O’Moore Park yesterday.

Yesterday was my first time in this year’s championship watching a game from home.

We’ve seen bad games this year, but this was the most boring.

Limerick goalkeeper Nickie Quaid emerged for the second half in the Gaelic Grounds on Saturday night sporting a bulky jacket he hadn’t worn in the first half because standing around idle is one sure way to pick up a cold.

Did Monaghan blow it, or were Down just too good in the second half? Eamonn McEneaney reckoned he knew the answer.

Davy Fitzgerald has said John Mullane was “a small bit gullible” to believe his former manager had ever suggested he was finished as a top inter-county hurler.

It was George Costanza’s top tip for giving the impression that you were hard at work when the opposite might well be the case: never walk down a hall without carrying a document in your hands.

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It was mid-morning last Saturday and the press corps following the Republic of Ireland was arriving at Arka Gdynia’s stadium in dribs and drabs for duties ahead of the last Group C game, against Italy.

Waterford star John Mullane has revealed the reasons why he celebrated wildly in front of former boss Davy Fitzgerald following last Sunday’s Munster SHC semi-final against Clare at Semple Stadium.

Michael Duignan’s plea could have served as an entreaty for all manner of frustrated parties.

STUTTGART, June 12, 1988. Ray Houghton’s goal. Packie Bonner defying Gary Lineker and everything else England could throw at him. The full-time scoreboard reading ‘England 0 Rep of Ireland 1. And, beneath it, the Green Army going positively bonkers.

If it wasn’t for Euro 2012, Andriy Shevchenko would probably have retired by now. The forward, commonly described as Europe’s most complete since Marco van Basten, is 35 now and, although he has looked after himself like few others, the body is beginning to creak.

Posh will have to wait for the Olympics and Crouchy’s omission has kept Abbey Clancy at home. So, asks Larry Ryan, where will frisky TV directors point the cameras during injury stoppages this month?

Find out some more about the decisive who could make or break dreams.

HERE COME the WAGs.

Tomorrow morning the Irish squad board a plane in London for yet another long haul flight as they return to the home of the 2011 World Cup and the scene of Ireland’s international highlight of the season — Eden Park, Auckland.

Kieran McGeeney’s calm expression at the final whistle was in contrast to the delirious hoots of joy from the significant Kildare crowd in Pearse Stadium as they secured promotion to Division 1 in the most dramatic circumstances.

Miracles do happen, though rarely.