Back from the brink

LAST summer, a thread on a GAA message board explored the mystery of why a top player was absent from his county panel: “What’s atin’?” so-and-so, it asked.

We won't exacerbate the player's discomfort by naming him here.

Yesterday, we got to hear what's atin' the GPA. Finally. Multitudinously. So many journalists turned up in Jury's Croke Park Hotel, Armagh's Kieran McGeeney almost had to plead "go back, please" for fear one of our number would be trampled in the crush. Come to think of it, maybe he just wouldn't grieve at such a tragedy.