GAA’s top table aren’t all turkeys

AT FIRST, I tried not to analyse it too much, but I knew something had changed, and changed utterly, when I found myself lying on the sofa watching ‘One Man and his Dog’.

And to claim I was only ‘watching’ the sheepdog trial isn’t really an accurate description. I was totally absorbed, but not to the extent where I didn’t occasionally catch myself wondering what I was doing.

At one stage I even found myself discussing the aesthetic merits of Ian Jones’ two dogs, Tom and Jess.