And… Breathe. The neutrals may welcome another shot at an All-Ireland hurling final after that stunning draw but can the locals in Kilkenny and Tipperary bear it? Will their hearts be able for that sort of tension again?

A truck carrying inert explosive components has crashed into the local shop in the village of Moneygall, Co Offaly.

Bomb disposal experts have removed a quantity of detonators from a mine in Co Tipperary where a workman was killed in a blast.

A man in his forties has died in an explosion at a mine in Co. Tipperary.