The Boot Room

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.

FIRSTLY, let’s state the obvious.

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.

SOME intercounty coaches, managers and players woke up, quite literally, to the news this week that they mightn’t be included in the 2025 National Hurling Leagues if a CCCC proposal gets the green light.

AIDAN O’Rourke found himself in the eye of two storms over the past couple of seasons.

FACEBOOK sometimes has its uses.

YOU get so used to DUP negativity that you almost expect their doom and gloom when good news visits us.

WHEN Portglenone’s Dermot McAleese came as a 28th minute substitute in their ill-fated Antrim SFC semi-final with Dunloy in Dunsilly last Friday night, the dynamic of the game shifted.

SOME Derry, Tyrone and plenty of Louth people were up in arms this week following the news that Mickey Harte and Gavin Devlin were leaving Louth to take over in Derry.

THE ugly appendages of unionism still think they’re living in Mississippi where cultural subjugation is deemed a credible and valiant past-time in 2023.