Sunlight on our heroes, on and off the pitch

AND will we be brilliant or what, will we be all dressed in sunlight?

In his CD of that name, Brilliant or What, John Spillane could have been writing about Croke Park last Sunday.

The hurlers of Cork and Wexford engaged in a titanic battle down on the perfect sod, with the rest of us sixty thousand shirt-sleeved supporters throbbing to the beat, equally engaged, utterly engrossed as our respective teams fought like the heroes of old, old Ireland.