On the basis that the hurling summer may not get better than this, let’s rejoice with Limerick and be glad while we can

Has another spring in Division 1B steeled Limerick for the championship?

The one potential saving grace for Championship 2013 on the evidence of Sunday at Nowlan Park?

It leaps from the mind’s eye as one of the standout moments of the 2012 championship, as one of the standout moments of any recent championship.

Eamonn Cregan recently expressed concern with the growth of “hurling scrums”, claiming that players are determined to get the ball into their hand instead of pulling first-time. Is this true? Is ground hurling gone forever? Or is today’s game much more precise and controlled than the game of old?

It’s been fun so far, eh?

Mr Wolf (Harvey Keitel): “You see that, young lady? Respect. Respect for one’s elders shows character.”

It was the early hours of the morning at the GAA All Stars in the Convention Centre in Dublin last October and Anthony Cunningham was rounding up his passenger for the trip home when someone said hello and shook hands with him.

And so Championship 2012 ended with the most predictable winners imaginable after the least predictable journey imaginable.

Those tremors you may have felt at around 8.30pm on Friday?