PM O'Sullivan: Tony Kelly's backhand roll the masterpiece of a hollow weekend's hurling

Not enough is remarked on top hurlers’ technique. The Ballyea native possesses a distinct style.

Clare’s Tony Kelly converts a penalty against Waterford
Picture: ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne

Summer hurling came home to an empty house.

Not in the sense, alas, of someone arriving too early for a party, everyone else still down the pub. Even for the people who watched last weekend’s action in a beer garden, this experience proved a sobering one. Commentators kept referencing a sense of emptiness, one literal in the grounds, metaphorical in various heads.