Life goes on for the men in green

It was threatening enough in Charleville on Saturday, but the rain held off, more or less, and Cork-Limerick played out their hurling challenge in that kind of eerie twilight you sometimes get on a late spring evening.

There was a decent crowd for the official opening of the new complex, but maybe there were other reasons that drew so many L-reg cars to the north Cork town.

Certainly on the way in, there were knots of people in green and white and snippets of conversation from them — ‘well, if he said that, surely they should have said...’ — which gave a good clue to the subject under discussion.