Kieran Bergin finally playing cards right

Maybe it’s because Kieran Bergin has seen and lived in another world to that of an inter-county hurler that makes him such an intriguing interviewee. 

Here is a man who said openly after last month’s Munster final that no team would have stopped Tipperary winning it, but then a couple of days later conceded the county have form in getting carried away.

Last October, Bergin laid it on the line for the county board when he claimed anyone but Eamon O’Shea in charge this year would be “a backward step”. He also rued the decision not to stage club games like Kilkenny in between the drawn and replay All- Ireland finals and said the last-gasp free awarded to Tipperary in the first game by Barry Kelly, this Sunday’s referee, was the wrong decision.