Nice bit of enterprise from the Bride Rovers club in east Cork, who are holding an open night on Friday for newcomers to their catchment area of Rathcormac, Bartlemy and Kildinan.

"These are strange and exciting times we live in, " Rovers' clubman John Arnold says. "Irish society has changed and the pace of change is increasing all the time. We must learn to adapt and live with it. The biggest change we have seen locally is the huge increase in population and in the diversity of cultures which we now have in our midst, many of them people who have never played - or maybe never seen - Gaelic games."

Sounds like a splendid idea.

Other clubs, please copy. If you seek them, they will come. And if you don't, they definitely won't.

NEED TO SORT OUT DISCIPLINARY MESS Memo to Frank Murphy and his pals on the disciplinary sub-committee (see feature): A player sent off in the first of last year's All Ireland hurling semi-finals and banned for a month would have been eligible to play in the final. A player sent off for a similar offence in the second semifinal and also banned for a month would have missed the final. If nothing else, gents, let's get this anomaly cleared up, eh?

FORTUNATE TYRONE LAMENT INCONSISTENCY Mickey Harte on McKenna Cup: "There hasn't been consistency in the application of the rule that was supposed to pertain to this competition." Clearly not, given that you knowingly fielded ineligible players, breaking the rules in the process, and Tyrone weren't booted out.

SELF-PUBLICISTS OFFER LEINSTER HELPING HAND Nice gesture by Laois chairman Joe O'Dwyer this week when he suggested opening O'Moore Park to the Leinster rugby team should they get a home tie in the Heineken Cup quarter-final. But there's something a little odd about Joe's remarks.

Given his position, he surely knows the rules. Such a move would require consent of Congress and that will not be until April. Perhaps it all came down to a little slice of self publication. In which case, it quite clearly worked.