PM O’Sullivan: Return of the serious stuff. Otherwise known as championship hurling in July

Both Galway vs Waterford and Clare-Cork obliged. There were plenty of wobbles and no end of bobbles. Melodrama came home to Thurles and Limerick

Joe Canning of Galway, left, and Aidan Harte react after their side's defeat in the GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Round 2 against Waterford. Have we seen the last of the sport's top scorer of all time? PM O'Sullivan thinks so. Picture: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

Hurling found spaghetti western weather, chance event turned proper frame.

Proper, because that kind of film embraces a wobbly tone. The serious stuff, of course. The never more serious stuff of heat and dust, bullets and nooses, death upon its horse.