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Getting put up at the top table at a press conference can be a daunting and painful enough task for professional sports people, never mind the senior players in Gaelic games, so it must be even more of a shock to the system for a handful of 17 and 18-year-olds to do so. But three of Mayo’s rising stars put their fears behind them last week in Breaffy House and were very much focused on the challenge ahead that is Sunday’s meeting with Monaghan in Croke Park.

Dublin remain the 9/4 outsiders against Galway this Sunday in the Leinster hurling final at Croke Park (4pm), despite having ditched Kilkenny out of the championship.

Strolling up Rockbarton Park last Sunday afternoon to Pearse Stadium, I met Bosco McDermott and Liam Sammon.

Strolling up Rockbarton Park last Sunday afternoon to Pearse Stadium, I met Bosco McDermott and Liam Sammon.

Which would you rather do? Play well and lose? Or play badly, ride your luck a bit, and win?

Brandon Bay in Castlegregory in County Kerry was the setting for the 2013 Surf Intervarsities on St Patrick’s weekend. It was a stunning location with a snow covered Mount Brandon in the background; it saw the coming together of surf clubs from all the colleges and universities in the country and the gathering of the finest surfers currently studying in third level in the country.

Gaelic football can be a very ugly field game at times, and the first half of the Galway and Wexford game last Sunday in Pearse Stadium was a case in point.

All county football referees have been ordered to stop youngsters from playing immediately if they are not wearing a mouthguard.

Any All Ireland is a good one. And when a Galway football team at any level defeats a Kerry team in an All Ireland final at Croke Park, it is a good day.

St Thomas had a splendid 0-15 to 0-7 victory over Loughgiel Shamrocks (Antrim) in the All-Ireland club semi-final replay last Saturday in Clones.