Hurling: Where the best games are ones you’ll never see

Oh, how we all laughed. And oh, how we were all outraged. By The Camogie Association, and Tossgate, and the idea that whoever progressed to the next round of the All-Ireland series could be selected as randomly and flippantly as that.

Bear this in mind, though. As farcical and as disgraceful as the predicament the camogie teams of Dublin and Clare were put in last month was, The Camogie Association still runs the best and fairest and most sensible championship schedule and structure in all of inter-county GAA, male or female, and one certainly far superior and equitable than its hurling equivalent.

When Tipperary were sent crashing out of the championship by Galway last Sunday, it was the fourth consecutive year that the team which had won the Munster championship had its season terminated in the very next game after a layoff of five weeks or more.