For awhile there he’d become hurling’s great forgotten man.

Now that we’ve all had a bit more time to register last Sunday when we were all so impressed as well as shocked by Galway, there’s a temptation now to be somewhat sceptical of them.

It seems an odd one at first.

Michael Collins: The game’s over,Harry. Lost again.

Incredible. Almost comical. Predictable. Frightening. Phenomenal.

In the public memory, he’ll always be a moment.

When it comes to the final whistle of championship games, John Mullane and Eoin Kelly are a photographer’s dream.

The man behind the Ross O’Carroll-Kelly phenomenon Paul Howard has gone back to his roots to finally give his obsession with the force of nature that is Roy Keane a voice — through the man’s loyal sidekick Triggs.

Sorry, but we’ve no chance now. And looking back, we never had a chance.

It might be an odd thing to say with the Euros about to commence in Poland and the Ukraine but we can’t think of a European venue that will host greater sport than that old bowl, Páirc Uí Chaoimh, this month.