Colin Sheridan: Another terrible beauty is born in the GAA world

Last week, rumours bounced around that Jimmy McGuinness was joining, or had joined, the Waterford hurlers as something. Nobody was or was quite sure as what

Derry City U19 coach Jim McGuinness, who previously managed the Donegal footballers, had been tipped for a role with the Waterford hurlers. Doing whar exactly, Colin Sheridan wonders?

When Jon Snow, the peerless Channel 4 presenter exited his last ever broadcast, he chose not to waste his last on-air words by listing is own achievements or recounting his greatest days, but instead to pay tribute to those behind the curtain who were charged with putting him there in front of us, night after night. The faceless technicians, researchers, cameramen and producers.

A clearly emotional Snow told those watching: “In the end...I am nothing without the skilled and journalistic teams that, night after night, ensure that Channel 4 News comes to you. The joy of working here is those teams and their skills.”