John Fogarty: Hurling not as we know it but how we must

For now, Championship hurling actually being played will do. It will more than do.

Limerick manager John Kiely with Clare manager Brian Lohan after the Munster Championship clash. Picture: INPHO/Ryan Byrne

Back in August, this column mused about what Semple Stadium might look like this past Sunday. Strike that, we dreamed.

Calling for a Championship in this pandemic was not a popular opinion never mind proposing the county season precede the club. It would have been the safer move, the inter-county scene being a far more controlled, sanitised creature, but here is where the GAA are. Wiser that a split season is the way forward if its reputation has been bruised by some of those post-county final celebrations that went against Covid-19 guidelines.