Tribesmen add appetite to presence

The All-Ireland senior hurling championship began yesterday in earnest. Not in Limerick, technically speaking. There were round robin games in Leinster last weekend which form the foothills for the trek to September.

According to the letter of the law, that’s the base camp everybody starts from when the peak is still wreathed in clouds.

But there’s a different flavour to the championship ahead because of what happened in yesterday’s league final.