Wicklow line out in white with green trim when forced to change. All this from the GAA's Dialann 2006.

One discovery surprised us, however. Carlow, those rasta-coloured Gaels, actually have a change strip, described as fired, green shoulders and yellow trim".

Sorry, but when was the last time Carlow came remotely close to experiencing a colour clash with the opposition? Dia linn indeed.

SELECT GROUP NOT REALLY THAT SELECT

Any further advances on the membership of the select group of hurlers Joe Canning will emulate if Galway win a third All Ireland minor "nal in a row this year?

Billy McGrath was on from Cork during the week to point out that his father Kevin won three minor medals in a row (1937-39), the "rst man to do so. Jimmy Doyle famously achieved the same feat with Tipperary between 1955 and '57, as did his less wellknown teammate Michael Craddock. John Buckley came on as a sub for Cork in the 1969 All Ireland "nal before winning two more medals as a member of the starting 15 in 1970 and '71.

And let's not forget John Troy, a sub with the victorious Offaly minors in 1986 and their goalie in 1987 and '89.

Anyone else out there who possesses three All Ireland minor hurling medals of which one or more was won from the bench? We rather suspect there is.

MORE TALES FROM THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC

It's a historical fact that the British officer in charge when Singapore fell to the Japanese during the Second World War was a LieutenantGeneral AE Percival. It's another fact that the same Lieutenant-General Percival had served in Cork during the War of Independence two decades earlier.

There is, of course, absolutely no truth in the tale . . . surely the most outlandish urban myth of them all . . . that the Japanese marched over the causeway and into Singapore singing 'The Boys of Kilmichael' as a consequence. But it is a pity that the Vodafone All Stars hurling party heading east next week will be light on Corkmen who could have enlightened their lessinformed fellow travellers about the Percival story ("Did ooh ever know, boyf" etc. ) The bus for Singapore leaves Croke Park at 11am on Wednesday. It would surely only have taken until check-in at Dublin airport.

Compiled by Philip Lanigan and Enda McEvoy