Thanks for that reminder about the fun piece in Wikipedia. My daughter showed it to me about 6 months ago, and I had assumed that it had been removed by now.

Anyway my 'official' response is as follows:

Can I plead my absolute innocence on the Wikipedia charge re. popularity, mountain climbing and world cinema! I've been told that my face is the perfect one for dogs, so I present greyhound racing on RTE. Climbing peaks is not my game (up two rungs of a ladder and I'm dizzy), and as for being a "lm buff. . . In my view Ben Hur should have been done for speeding and reckless driving in the last movie I remember seeing, and doesn't George Clooney play right halfforward for Roscommon? And please note that I shall refute any further suggestions in Wikipedia that I am a bungy jumper, ballroom dancer, one-time camogie star, embroidery champion and first cousin of Harry Potter!

Yours etc, Ger Canning Now that we've cleared up that little mess, we are left around to sit around wondering if there's any truth in the other Wikipedia page we highlighted. So Marty Morrissey, did you famously auction your underpants for charity at a club draw in county Clare only to "nd there we are no takers. Here's looking forward to the answer.

A LITTLE CAMERA SHY IN LEITRIM?

Do they have cameras in Leitrim?

A glance at the programme for Feile na nGael 2007, which is taking place in Kilkenny and Carlow this weekend, makes you wonder. The publication contains photos of all 92 teams participating in the six divisions in hurling . . . with the exception, that is, of Manorhamilton, the Leitrim representatives. Pity.

Among the other discoveries to emerge from a quick flick through the programme are that the Christy Ring trophy awarded to the Feile Division 1 champions is a sterling silver number commissioned by Ring's colleagues in Irish Shell; that Na Piarsaigh from Cork and James Stephens from Kilkenny are the two winningest clubs in the grade, with six victories apiece;

and that Kieran Phelan, who's playing midfield for the Warwickshire team this weekend, is a descendant of Paddy Phelan, left-half back on hurling's Teams of the Century/Millennium.