Not for fading, these Cork Rebels, not the boys of 2021

Both Galway vs Waterford and Clare-Cork obliged. There were plenty of wobbles and no end of bobbles. Melodrama came home to Thurles and Limerick

What changed in the third quarter’s astonishing reversal and what are the main lessons to take forward?

Dublin or Kilkenny making the All-Ireland Final now looks a live prospect

Not enough is remarked on top hurlers’ technique. The Ballyea native possesses a distinct style.

Hurling lies in the dock, various ways. For becoming tedious, most of all. My phone is littered with such messages. ‘Isn’t hurling gone awful boring?’ ‘Who’d want to go and see that?’

Most of the current players are known to be frustrated about the lack of pre-match analysis and consequent difficulties when an alternative plan is required for stretches of a game

This year, so trying and difficult, will be remembered for pivoting on a reduction.

There is a coldness at the heart of genius ― that “splinter of ice”, in Graham Greene’s phrase. Hogan’s black helmet silked into an executioner’s hood