RIGHT, cards on the table from the off. For starters, this observer can’t see Tipperary not beating Cork tomorrow despite some qualms about their half-back line, and if it’s easy and lazy to speculate that the underdogs will give ‘em plenty of it before the MacCarthy Cup holders assert their authority in the closing quarter, then so be it.

Tests carried out on some soil in the area already confirm the presence of the highly toxic substance, PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl), on a green area adjacent to Dukesmeadows, off the Bennettsbridge Road, near Kilkenny city.