Why the GAA needs mint sauce on its lamb chops

THERE’s this red line raiding against the Donegal rearguard and it’s late on and the game in the balance.

At the sharp end of the attack is the loping lethality that is Benny Coulter and the ball is in the net even before it actually strikes. It’s a vicious goal. Coulter electrifies himself into the air in a joyous explosion in a manner which must have hurt all of the old injuries he has taken during a stellar career...

Joe Canning is well shackled by Wexford through the Leinster hurling clash between the Tribesmen and Wexford. The star is dimmed by dint of hard defending. He drifts outfield and gets two or three inches of space for a change. In an instant he turns that few inches into a few feet and a wondrous classic point arrows over the bar....