What curious things you come across in programmes. At last Sunday's Connacht club football semi-final between Ballina Stephenites and Eastern Harps, Mayo midfielder and international basketball player Liam McHale was described as an entomologist.

Not many entomologists crawling around the western European seaboard playing Gaelic football. An entomologist, according to Chambers English Dictionary, is one learned in entomology, which in turn is the science of insects.

We are unaware that McHale ever studied zoology or professed to know the difference between an arachnid and an aphid. A specialised area is entomology and not many jobs going, although, according to those wise to creepy-crawlies they are much sought after in the area of pest control. Now maybe there is an area in which the great athlete may excel in and around the middle of the park.