This class act ticks all the right boxes

THERE is a reason for the grey hair you see in the accompanying picture.

Last Tuesday evening, your columnist was preparing to shoot off the following day for a friendly sit-down with a well-known GAA player, an arrangement put in place the previous week.

On Wednesday morning, right in the middle of Dora The Explorer’s mambo dance — which is about eight o’clock if you are familiar with the Nick Jr programming schedule — a text arrives from the same player: his manager has put the halters on. No sit-down.