Paul Rouse: When it comes down to it, there is nothing that beats playing

The only advice to be offered is to play as long as you can. Then play longer. And if you’ve stopped, go back and begin again.

Glen Rovers and now retired Cork hurler Patrick Horgan. Pic: James Crombie/Inpho

To mark the beginning of the new academic year, the Professor of Law at the University of Galway, Donncha O’Connell, posted Brendan Kennelly’s brilliant poem, ‘Begin’. There are many lovely lines in it, but none are better than the last four:

“Though we live in a world that dreams of ending