Date with Dublin touchstone to Carlow’s golden age

There’s something deeply patronising and self-serving about the way in which some from traditionally successful GAA counties wish to carve the championship up for their own ends and shunt Carlow — and all the Carlows — off to a ‘B’ championship, writes Paul Rouse.

No human can function without memory. On a practical level, memory allows us to meet the basic challenges of living, the practical fundamentals of getting through the day.

But, of course, there is another aspect to memory which is critical to how people live: it can be found in the way that remembrance of the past — either personally experienced or inherited from stories learned from other people — shapes the decisions we make in our lives.