The afternoon will come when Limerick, like many a great team before them, grow old together and die. But that is not this day.

Can Galway keep losing to Limerick in white-knuckle All-Ireland semi-finals by a puck of a ball? Scarcely. Meanwhile the Cats retain their Kilkennyness

Cahill’s team could yet be formidable. The outline of the jigsaw is on the table. One or two of the pieces in the middle remain to be fitted in the right way

Limerick are the great undead, Galway found substance in parody, but Tipp still hold secrets

What Clare don’t quite need from Tony Kelly is a repeat of last year’s Munster final when he hit 0-13 of their 0-29, 0-7 of it from play. Instead...

Sixteen of the 20 who featured for Limerick against Tipp, 13 of them starters, had featured against Galway in the 2018 All-Ireland final half a decade ago. Too many. Far too many

In his fourth season Brian Lohan continues to elicit high-class displays. A happy democracy with total buy-in from the players but no question as to the identity of the boss

Limerick have been winged, not holed. But it would not be overdoing it to assert that we now have a championship as opposed to a flower-strewn homecoming procession

The outcome last weekend did at least confirm one thing we already knew. No opponents will unseat Limerick when driving more than six or seven wides.

Who’s going to win the 2024 All-Ireland? Analysing the one before looks like fruitless work. Easier instead to call up last month’s Champion Hurdle on YouTube