LAST weekend, and not for the first time this year, you’d have to say the football outshone the hurling, big-time – a bad Leinster final in Croke Park.

I started my hurling weekend in Semple Stadium on Saturday, and it was torture.

ONE thing Galway can’t complain about going into this Leinster final is a lack of games – in fact they have more big matches played than Kilkenny, three to one.

ANOTHER brilliant game, just as I had forecast, and I can’t understand how anyone could have expected otherwise.

FAIR play to both Offaly and Galway for producing the game of the championships in Croke Park last weekend.

IT’S funny the things you overhear at matches.

FOR the first time that I can recall, there’s been more talk this year about the Leinster hurling semi-finals than about Munster.

On the way into Semple Stadium yesterday I met three fine Waterford men, Tony Wright, Michael O’Donnell and a man with a great Clare name but who assured me he was all Waterford, Paddy McNamara.

AFTER all the excitement of last Sunday’s game between Cork and Tipperary – and fair dues to both teams for that – I’m beginning to wonder if there is any game at all on this weekend in Munster?

I was one of the many who would have liked to have seen one or two more changes to the Cork starting 15, but I did wonder if those players were out there, if Cork did in fact have anything better.