All Stars prove you can't please people all the time.

(From Irish Independent)

WHO wrote this? When? And about what?

"Since the announcement of the football team, I have heard all sorts of cribs and, with due deference to those of my colleagues who made the final judgement, I heartily agree with what the 'knockers' have to say. The selectors dropped a heavy clanger in the omission of Kerry's Mick O'Connell. He should have been an automatic choice at midfield.

"I would have passed over Willie Bryan (Offaly) and gone for Galway's Jimmy Duggan in preference to his countyman, Liam Sammon. Much as I admired the excellent play of Galway's left corner forward, Seamus Leydon, I just cannot understand the omission of Mick O'Dwyer. Of all the boobs pulled, however, surely the choice of Cork's Ray Cummins at centre half-forward takes the biscuit. Has he ever played in the position at top level?"

Yes, you've got it. The GAA All Star selectors …