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Now that September is done and dusted and all the All Ireland titles in the world of GAA are decided. Galway will cherish the two we got, the Under 21 hurlers and the Minor footballers, plenty good to be goin' on with.

It is also the time of year for the wise crackers to take a potshot at those counties that didn't do as well as they might have wished. But first don't mind this plagiarism business, as long as you say where you stole the data! That's what counts. The diary lifted the following from the Sunday Tribune of a few weeks back. Here goes: What's the difference between a Waterford jersey and a school uniform? You see school uniforms in September!

What do you call a Limerick man with an All Ireland medal? An antique dealer!

Clare people eat, drink and sleep hurling. Shame they can't play it!

What's the difference between the Cork hurling team and the Ryder Cup team? There's only one Langer on the Ryder Cup team!

How many Wicklow fans does it take to change a light bulb? Doesn't matter, they're all damned to eternal darkness anyway!

What do Roscommon and Bernard Dunne have in common? They're both out after round one!

What's blue and white and goes beep, beep, beep? Waterford's open-top bus reversing back into the garage!

The Fermanagh footballers are not going abroad on holidays this year; they're travelling down to Dublin to do the tourist trail ? to see what it is like to ride on an open-top bus!

Don't annoy me about Ireland and the WRC. The situation is worse because by Sunday evening there will probably not be a northern hemisphere country in the semi-finals.

We thought that the timekeeping at the end of the Killererin and NUIG match in Tuam Stadium and the eventual outcome should be the sporting moment of the week. Three minutes extra time was announced and with five minutes extra time played the ref awarded the free to Killererin that squared matters. QED. Well not quite as things are not always as they appear. The conspiracy theory may not hold up in this instance.

The sporting moment of the week goes to Paul McGinley for telling Nick Faldo that he can stuff the vice captaincy of the Ryder Cup. Right or wrong or neither for that matter doesn't it take great strength of character to give back a prestige appointment for whatever reason. Here's hoping he now makes the team as a player. If he has the golfing skills to make it, he certainly has the mental strength to go the distance. Yep, the sporting moment of the week.

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