Players aren’t the only ones sweating

The summer is cranking into full gear, though the weather isn’t exactly playing along — a shame that the rain washed out that first Test cricket game in Dublin over the weekend, of which more elsewhere.

Summer also means GAA’s inter-county season cranks up. This means a million conversations have their starting point for the next couple of months, but it also means the GAA columnist faces the inevitable rise and fall of his natural rhythms. Preoccupations! Theories! Unlikely references?

A brief timeline.