Finding the real storylines behind the 2016 GAA league season

There’s hardly another GAA weekend like it for stirring so many permutations and palpitations... and exaggerations.

Following events last Sunday, when for a long time it looked like the Galway hurlers and Cork footballers were going to be safe from relegation, it brought to mind something someone said to us at the start of the league.

This column was interviewing Paudie O’Neill, now chairman of the Hurling Development Committee, who served as a selector to the Tipperary hurlers during Eamon O’Shea’s three years as manager.