Calendar lull offers chance to salute our sporting greats

There’s still a few days to be crossed off the calendar but we’ll go out on a limb here and suggest that the first September in living memory without a pair of All-Ireland men’s senior finals at its core will come and go without the sky falling in and the very fabric of the GAA having been ripped asunder.

It’s nearly six weeks since Limerick bridged the gap back to 1973, almost a month since Dublin claimed their four-in-a-row, and the world has kept turning.

It’s been different, no question about that, but sport abhors a vacuum and the days and nights since September 2 have been filled with a minimum of fuss.