Enda McEvoy: Hurling has never been less important. Hurling has never been more important.
Kilkenny’s Ciaran Wallace is tackled by Wexford’s Joe O’Connor during the Allianz Hurling League match earlier this year. This is likely to be Davy Fitzgerald’s last year in charge of Wexford — can he sign off with silverware?
It would have been the ultimate firestarter. Over 40,000 partisans descending on the Ennis Road for El Midwestico.
Green and white on saffron and blue. Light the fuse, stand well back and let the descendants of Mike Houlihan and Ollie Baker wire into one another. Now that’s what you call a championship opener.
