Jack Anderson: The GAA's McGuinness mess: Five ways to avoid a repeat

Only in Ireland can you define paranoid as worrying that no one is out to get you.

JIM JAM: Donegal manager Jim McGuinness after their All-Ireland SFC clash with champions Kerry in Killarney. Pic: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

Writer Malcom Gladwell takes an alternative view of things we presume to know. Being an athletics fan, he frequently mentions sport. 

Recently, he criticised the hyper-competitive world of youth sport which he says only leads to a steep decline in adult participation. His mantra on this (shared with every 40+ year old junior B hurler in the country) is, “passion lasts longer than pressure”.