Question for Dr Crokes is: How do you keep climbing the summit?

On these pages this day last week, we read of fallen empires, Caltra and Crossmolina, both of whom achieved All-Ireland Club football glory early in the last decade, suffering relegation to the intermediate ranks in Galway and Mayo respectively.

We learned also of Buffers Alley losing their seat at the top table of Wexford hurling.