Tadhg Coakley's trip to Tipp: 'The crowd in Thurles is beautiful, too. A crowd I’ve missed. My crowd, my tribe'

Tadhg Coakley charts his journey to and from Sunday's Munster SHC clash of Cork and Clare

"Liberty Square is quiet for a championship day. It looks like rain. One of the sellers of colours – his face full of forbearance – has added ponchos to his fare of hats, flags and headbands. His heart isn’t in it, I can tell, whatever ails him."

Hope is the thing with feathers, 

That perches in the soul,