Larry Ryan: Does it all turn into rugby in the end?

Will the hurling fraternity be able to fully enjoy the Six Nations, so consumed are they with worry that this is the way their own game is heading

A fully-focused James Lowe during an Ireland training session yesterday.  Picture: Inpho/Billy Stickland

It should be some consolation to the hurling man or woman suffering withdrawal symptoms — the arrival on centre stage of the nearest thing, the rugby.

In theory, it’s all there for them this weekend, the rucking and mauling and offloading and attrition and collisions and lines of running and all that jazz.