Some in your party possibly see it as a form of athletic Catholicism when, in fact, it is cross-community in intent and ...

Pic: by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile It is considered an article of faith within the GAA that lines drawn on maps are sacred in their meaning: county plays against county, parish plays against parish.

Twee though it feels to recall now, there was a time when property developers, the movie stars of boom-time Ireland, used to eye GAA grounds in the manner of a hangry lion sizing up a dozy zebra.