You Can't be Serious!

The ‘Great Hurling Man’ featured heavily all during the current championship; in the pubs, on the stands and on the Sunday Game.

‘Letting the game flow …’

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For many of us old sporting ‘dinosaurs’ it is a struggle to get used to the fact that the GAA inter-county year is over...
I brought Jack to Croke Park again last Sunday. A lot has changed in those nine years. A much larger Jersey and the grandfather now has to look up at the grandson. Yes, things much different this time around; and while we were heading for Dublin Jack’s mother had her cherished Mayo flag waving gently from her grave in Killulagh.

‘Me and my best friend Jack’ (Part 2)

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On Sunday 17th September 2017, I took my Mayo grandson, then aged ten, to his first All-Ireland football final. I remember writing the following week’s...
Bob Dylan wrote and recorded a famous song back in the 60s; ‘The times they are a-changin’ . Bob is still around today and if he had a hankerin’ to write a sequel to his iconic song, climate change would surely have to feature as the great time-changer.

‘The times they are a-changin …’

‘I have nothing to wear’, my always-elegant wife announced again last week after we had been invited to meet a gathering of family and friends. This time I decided to take a stand, state the obvious and rest my case.

‘I have nothing to wear …’

You may have difficulty in crediting this, dear reader, but I was once known as being ‘smart for my age.’ Then obviously and inexplicably something went awry with the head cogs and all changed – but we’ll return to that in a moment.

Are you ‘smart for your age?’

This week, dear reader, YCBS is all about someone you know well … yourself!

You Can’t Be Serious