No news is good news as fixtures take toll

I RANG He Who Must Be Obeyed on the Sports desk Monday morning to sort out the menu for this week, to be greeted by a voice that sounded like it was coming from beyond the grave.

No news is good news as fixtures take toll

Have a think back to your Irish Examiner of yesterday and understand why — a clutter of All-Ireland football qualifiers, two huge hurling qualifiers, Ulster football finals, Leinster football finals, inter-county camogie action, all the club activity in the various counties, and that was just the GAA championship supplement!

Add the Pádraig Harrington heroics to the mix, stir in all the various other sports covered so comprehensively by this paper, and I think you’ll begin to appreciate why there was such utter exhaustion among those who steer this ship. Tom Aherne, the chief sports sub, once described it to me as like working on a fast-moving assembly line in a factory where you produce a different product every day, an assembly line that never stops.

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