Dubs can take a bow after hurling heroics

IT WAS a brilliant weekend for hurling and a dreadful one for football.
Dubs  can take a   bow after hurling heroics

Let’s forget about the football, then, and concentrate on one of the best weekends ever for the game of hurling. For once, both the Munster and much-maligned Leinster hurling championship produced the goods in spades and in scores.

Pride of place must go to the Dubs, who showed nerves of steel and great skill in qualifying for their first Leinster final in 18 years. No wonder former champion hurler, Sean Óg O Ceallacháin, presenter of the longest running programme in the world (his 11pm Sports Results on Sunday night) gave the Dubs’ result on top of his programme.

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