YOU just knew something was happening long before the final whistle sounded in the county semi-final between Dunloy and Loughgiel Shamrocks at the beginning of October.

NO sooner had the bell sounded on Saturday’s epic rematch with Chantelle Cameron than talk turned to what Katie does next

IT takes a smart man to play the fool. Sean McGoldrick is a smart man. The Coleraine campus of the University of Ulster would not have employed him for over 40 years if he hadn’t been.

FIRSTLY, let’s state the obvious.

RONNIE O’Sullivan has spent his whole life searching for perfection and a way not to care if he never finds it.

FROM the darkened and sound-proof environs of the Healy Park press box last Saturday evening, a handful of hard-bitten GAA reporters watched the final throes of Aaron Kernan’s playing career.

It’s a funny thing, but sometimes there is a sort of sixth sense about the person you’re going to meet. Francie’s good friend, Seamus Loughran, had filled me full of a lifetime’s worth of stories, but it was an award-winning picture by Irish News photographer Mal McCann that said more than words ever could