Déise can’t spill any more crumbs

Cork and Waterford. The curtain-raiser tomorrow where a few years back it would have been the feature event.

And not just the feature event of the day: one of the feature events of the hurling summer.

Fireworks. Explosions. Trumpets. Badge-kissing. Scripted by Shakespeare, directed by Danny Boyle, starring roles by Big Dan and little Joe and the Rock and the De La Salle skinhead and the rest of them.