The league isn’t something just to get through

In case you’re understandably excited about the dawn of another hurling season to the point of relishing its league, apologies to temporarily provide a bit of a dampener, or a bit of context, or at least someone else’s perspective, writes Kieran Shannon.

Over the winter, when John Mullane was asked to turn his thoughts to the summer and who he fancied for the 2015 All Ireland,

he predicted the winner would emerge from the first-round Munster championship clash of Limerick and Clare. As in whoever lost