This is going to be explosive

AS usual before an All-Ireland final, I travelled to both competing counties this past week, to Hayes’ Hotel in Thurles and to the equally renowned Langton’s in Kilkenny.

And of course, as usual also on those trips, I picked up a few titbits, conversations overheard.

In Thurles, I was listening to a Limerick man and Wexford man arguing over which was the more arrogant hurling county, Tipperary or Kilkenny, and of course the Limerick man was saying Tipperary, the Wexfordman was convinced it was Kilkenny. My own opinion? I couldn’t agree with either of them, because I don’t think either of those counties are arrogant.