Tomas, North Cork – “I never yet saw a Point-to-Point jockey who could play in the backs, Tomas. You’ll have to persist with him at corner-forward, but threaten him with excessive use of the whip if he doesn’t shape up.”

Arthur, West Wicklow – “Apologise to no-one Arthur. You’re not the first team to win a divisional junior championship with two walkovers on route to the final. As you said yourself, you played great stuff in the final. What matter the other team had to field two lads in long trousers for the start of the second-half. You saw off all-comers. You can do no more. Tour the parish and walk with your heads held high.”
McDonald McLeod McArthur MacDonald, Inverness (surname withheld at request of correspondent) – “Yes, you’re on the ball there, that was me alright you spotted coming out of the book shop on Young Street. I try to get over for the Camanachd Cup final as often as I can. In the old days, Nancy enjoyed a bracing trot around Bught Park. I gave Ronald Ross some coaching tips a few years back and we stay in touch.”

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