Reports emerged over the weekend that Jon Rahm’s new £450m deal with LIV Golf was six times the entire 2023 revenue of the breakaway league. In his annual report to Convention, PGA county secretary James O’Monahan has described the situation as “unsustainable”. Galway, meanwhile, have revealed that their spending on county teams this year was just under €25m. Kilkenny footballers’ expenses came to €11.30.

Life in Clarinbridge has changed ahead of 2024. The local travel agents are hoping for a Christmas surge now that leaving the village between January and November is banned. The bars have all had to shut since prohibition was reintroduced. Connaughton’s AppleGreen is flying it though with the Limerick lads having to travel up and down for training now. Players have quickly gotten used to logging bowel movements on the app at least.

Hurling in Cavan, Fermanagh, Leitrim, Longford and Louth was treated by Croke Park like a Luis Rubiales kiss. A GAA spokesperson said: ‘We’ve done nothing wrong. They asked us to do it. Who even told them they could hurl in the first place?’ After being socially assassinated to the point where even the GPA eventually remembered to make a statement, the GAA relented.

Cristiano Ronaldo has been stuck in his ringside side now for over a week, waiting for Conor McGregor to stop talking at him. Ronaldo has remained silent on whether he accept the invitation to join McGregor for a riotous night out in Dublin.

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The night of the All-Ireland final, the team at The Sunday Game nominated Mick Fitzsimons – winner of a now-joint record ninth All-Ireland – for the man-of-the-match award. His direct opponent scored 0-2 from play and assisted 1-2. David Clifford’s pass for the goal was a superb piece of play off his weaker right foot. Clifford was judged by his own ridiculously high standard. Of RTÉ's website and six major newspapers, The Irish News’ Kenny Archer was the only one that gave him a 7. The others all gave him a 6. It wasn’t his best day and there were wides he normally wouldn’t kick but what other forward would have been given a 6 and had his man nominated for man of the match after scoring 0-2 from play and setting up 1-2?

When Rathmore returned home from Dublin on an open trailer after winning the All-Ireland intermediate championship, their friends and neighbours were naturally out to greet them. In the middle of January. With snowballs. The players got pelted and were helpless to do anything about it.

This will bring a smile to your face. All-Ireland Intermediate champions Rathmore get pelted with snowballs by their clubmates upon returning to Kerry.

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