When your team is a minnow, the players you support are your older brothers, trying to dish out punches to the playground bullies

Did you know the secret to his great success lies in ancient Irish sports? And doesn't that make you want to try 'em all?

These cricket kids are equipped with pristine kit, perfect cover drives and bowling actions, combined with fizzing arms, youthful complexions and boundless optimism for the future. They are everything I am not

I am no stranger to cricketing humiliation. Many's the time I thought I had reached my cricketing nadir but there was one occasion when I really did hit bottom, so to speak

Ireland may have big cricketing aspirations but some folk have yet to be won over - as proved by a popular TV dating show