George Mackay Brown: The Wound and the Gift

THESE are not golden days for the Scots.

THE PERFECT STORM, Kilkenny People journalist John Knox called it, and it was. What we saw in Croke Park on Sunday was a brilliantly coached, superbly conditioned team, with outstanding individual hurlers in every position with all the skills of the game.

IT’S an indicator of how fast Robert Kearney’s career is progressing that the Leinster back was disappointed not to be involved in Ireland’s Autumn internationals last month.