World’s big enough for GAA to look beyond Dubai

The other day as images of a towering inferno in Dubai appeared on our screens, our immediate response and fear wasn’t just that there was likely to be casualties in the blaze; some were bound to be Irish.

Then, another thought dawned on us. Some of those Irish could be a touring GAA team. At this time of year, in that part of the world, there was bound to be one that was in town, and with that hotel only a puckout away from the world’s biggest building, the Burj Khalifa tower, which some of them were bound to check out, especially on New Year’s Eve with a spectacular fireworks display scheduled...

Thankfully, miraculously, nobody was killed or even seriously hurt in the fire that broke out in the 63-storey Address Hotel.