Science at hand to fix GAA schedules

It took me a while but I caught up last week with Michael MacCambridge’s America’s Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation.

Among the gems? How the NFL organised its schedule in the 1950s with one man, Bert Bell, sitting at his kitchen table, slotting dominoes in and out of home-made shelves to represent teams and venues for the entire season.

Now help is at hand, however. Last week, I also caught up with Dr Barry O’Sullivan of UCC, this year’s Science Foundation Ireland Researcher of the Year. The full interview will appear here soon, so consider this a taster.