Enda McEvoy: Offaly the good news story, but still no getting away from Limerick

It has been an indifferent Allianz Hurling League, but not one without high points.

Brian Duignan of Offaly takes on Dublin's Darragh Power during the sides' Allianz League clash in Croke Park. Pic: James Lawlor, Inpho

A bad National Hurling League or at least an indifferent iteration thereof? Too many matches that lacked bite, as per Liam Sheedy’s assertion on the Sunday Game? Too many afternoons when punches were pulled instead of thrown?

All inarguable yet not the whole story. Far from the whole story. All one has to do is look off Broadway. Hurling exists there too. Occasionally it does more than exist. Occasionally it thrives.