Na Piarsaigh face Cuala in today’s All-Ireland club hurling final, and Shane O’Neill, manager of the Limerick champions, still finds his club’s status difficult to conjure with.

“It’s strange now to see Waterford favourites playing Kilkenny whether it’s in Walsh Park, Nowlan Park, or Nagasaki.”

Cork 4-21 Tipperary 2-28

I WILL tell you something I have heard on more than a few occasions in various press boxes up and down the country: “Ah Flynn, you’re showing yourself up again, Ballyhea, only a junior hurler.”