Colin Sheridan: The night Kerry talisman David Clifford showed his mortal side 

The last time the Fossa marksman was held scoreless from play was the Sigerson decider against NUIG.

ON THE MARK: Referee David Gough awards a penalty to UL during the Electric Ireland HE GAA Sigerson Cup Final match between NUI Galway and University of Limerick at IT Carlow. Picture: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Genius, Baudelaire told us, is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.  Nothing like a French poet to nonchalantly define the indefinable, but, to be fair to the petit bard, he was on to something. 

For if nothing else separates the immortals from the rest of us, it is NOT their ability to do the hard things consistently well - that would just make them great - but their ability to do great things with a childlike joy and gay abandon. Exhibit A, Leo Messi. He plays football now like he did when he was a kid. He may work harder than everyone, he may not, but what endures is the audacity of everything he does and the regularity with which he does it.