Ronan Mullen

And, you know, and as much as I sort of assumed that that's what everybody wants out of sports coverage, maybe it's just we're out of time.

But I think that was better.

You know, I think it was better in the day.

And he didn't have that thing, you know, the very tedious and probably necessary where the anchor has to play devil's advocate, has to put the other side.

And you know that it's really kind of it's done for a specific reason.

I didn't seem to have to.

Just tick all the boxes now that feel so inevitable every time you watch a highlights programme or even a live programme.

So, like, to me, that will always be the best GAA coverage that we've ever had was Michael Lester and the lads at halftime, basically, and him letting them have it out.

And it was very natural and he seemed to be as much a natural part of that and a facilitative part of that as any of the analysis were.

See, the 80s weren't the thing.

People forget how recent a live thing, like live GAA was.

Other than finals, it just didn't happen.

You know, I remember being a kid and I remember my dad saying, yeah, they're going to show Leinster football championship matches live on the television.

It's such a recent thing.

We don't even take it for granted.

Yeah, my sort of...

And it's been so long since I've seen Michael Lester on the television.

I've watched so much GAA analysis since.

But I do feel that a lot of the analysis now in terms of like from the anchor part, that they're trying to fit in so much.

And I don't just mean across the different games.