OCTOBER days don’t happen by accident.

THE GAA’s fixture task force is planning to recommend radical options including rebalancing the provincial football system into four eight-team competitions and splitting the calendar in two – plans that will almost certainly be laid to waste if Special Congress votes in favour of a tiered championship this afternoon.

WHY, you would have to wonder, the panic on the GAA’s behalf to rush through a tiered championship? Some would argue it’s overdue and that 130 years of the same system hardly constitutes a rush job.

AFTER turning in a defining display to help Trillick claim an eighth star for the back collar of the famous red jersey, Rory Brennan paid tribute to the work that’s been done in the club over almost two decades.

AS a teenager, I worked briefly in the local bar.

DROMORE, Clonoe, Coalisland, Errigal Ciaran. There are no easy Tyrone championships, but there were few harder earned than the one earned by Trillick yesterday in far more convincing fashion than the scoreline suggests.