Croker’s gain is Tbilisi’s loss

"Let’s have some new clichés," film producer Samuel Goldwyn once demanded.

For now, we must press on with the old ones. Every hurling match is still the greatest ever.

“It started off like a chess match, but it turned into a full-blown game of battleship.” I’m not sure which of the lads on Radio One said it afterwards. I had it on in the ear, up in the Cusack, still looking out onto the field long after the whistle.