Enda McEvoy: Crumbs from the table - Tales from All-Ireland media nights

Twenty years ago a high proportion of the press participants would stay over wherever the function was and exchange whatever GAA gossip tended to ensue. Those days are gone. They will never return. Pity

POINT TAKEN: It’s almost 30 years since this Ray McManus classic was taken at a Cork press night in Pairc Ui Chaoimh — Enda McEvoy interviewing Ger Fitzgerald before the 1992 decider against Kilkenny. The pre-final media events are now a very different beast. Picture: Ray McManus/Sportsfile

Here are a few takeaways from Cork’s All-Ireland press event at Páirc Uí Rinn last week.

It rained, forcing interviewers and interviewees to gather under the main stand in order to transact their business.