To just give up on facts and information, and to simply cede the pitch to imagination and emotion and feelings is a profound mistake.

“I could build me a castle with memories  Just to have somewhere to go”  John Prine, ‘Clay Pigeons’ (2005)  It’s early on a Wednesday morning and the Phoenix Park is still empty.

According to reporting by Mark Sidebottom of the BBC, at a meeting of the Ulster Competitions Control Committee, Antrim GAA proposed Corrigan Park as a venue. All nine Ulster counties were present at the meeting, but none seconded the motion.

On Friday evening, the GAA’s Football Review Committee meet to consider their next move in the process of overhauling Gaelic football.

Sports psychologists make clear that there are techniques that help athletes recover from setbacks, but to present success in overcoming outrageous misfortune as a triumph of resilience is grossly simplistic.

Denis Law had a deep loyalty to Scotland. He may have lived and worked outside the country of his birth for all of his adult life, but there was no denying his Scottishness.

Two of the emperor Charlemagne’s grandsons – Louis the German and Charles the Bald – ruled rival kingdoms in ninth century Europe.

Sometimes hubris just gets exposed for what it is, however: the year since Jim Ratcliffe has taken over “the football operation” at Manchester United is a fine example of this.

When news of the Fenton retirement emerged, Murt took the day off work to mark the ending of an era and to herald maybe the dawn of a new one which in his glorious imagination would involve the Green and Red climbing the steps.

It’s not easy to be a kid now; they're mobile phone screens change an awful lot. It offers a portal to many different realities – good and bad – even in the space of a bus journey.