Eimear Ryan: Kilkenny comeback was a thrilling plot twist in the drama that is Championship 2020

Will the All-Ireland final feature Galway or Kilkenny, as it has every year but one since 1998? Or will we ultimately be looking at a Munster Mash?

Kilkenny manager Brian Cody speaks to his players at the water break during the Leinster semi-final win over Dublin. Picture: Daire Brennan/Sportsfile

And then there were six. The rapidly narrowing field of All-Ireland hurling contenders now contains four teams from Munster and two from Leinster. At the weekend, while many were live-tweeting their binge-watch of Netflix’s The Crown, we hurling folks had our own viewing marathon: streaming the qualifier then switching to RTÉ for the camogie then to Sky for the other qualifier then back to RTÉ for the Leinster final.

It reminded me, in a strange way, of election night: the channel-hopping, the breathless commentary, the spiking cortisol levels, Jamesie O’Connor at the giant Sky Sports iPad like a slightly less animated Steve Kornacki. And just like in the wake of the election, now the number-crunching and the parsing of possible permutations begins.