Who would be an inter-county bainisteoir?

Yesterday’s All-Ireland senior football final marks the end of the inter-county season — this is a watershed for many, though anyone with an eye on the calendar will be aware of the ladies football and camogie deciders on the horizon.

But what yesterday really starts is a whole season of subterfuge, of discreet courting and snatched coffees, surreptitious phone calls . . . not a national proroguing of marriage vows, but the inter-county management courtship season: the IMKISS.