New Order, Happy Mondays, United and City, Strangeways and ship canals, the worker bee and ... Oisins GFC. Manchester, so much to answer for. Not least the world’s most famous ex-GAA player ...

Not least the world’s most famous ex-GAA player, Noel Gallagher, who was at Croke Park, marched out to the sound of Amhrán na bhFiann, as an U16 corner-forward with Manchester’s Oisins GFC in 1983.