Tipperary stamp out any sign of revolution

You down tools for a few days — less than a week in fact — and the world is turned upside down in your absence.

Galway become Leinster champions at the expense of Kilkenny and the downtrodden masses of the hurling world look up in hope: perhaps the tumbrils can begin to roll and inaugurate a new, more equitable order. A little more égalité, even if the traditional lack of fraternité is maintained.

Until yesterday, and the response from the other member of the ancien régime in yesterday’s Munster final. Tipperary didn’t exactly play with Waterford like a half-interested cat torturing a mouse, but they had enough to spare. We were looking for Waterford to play the role of French revolutionaries storming the Bastille, but we ended up with Tipp’s closing scores being cheered like the final choruses of Les Miserables.