A refreshing summer without skin in the game? Let’s be real

Last Sunday, the Thurles version of Hawk-Eye was, regrettably, at it again.

Taking several minutes to decipher both John Conlon and Seamus Callanan’s first-half attempts, Semple’s Specsavers gadget was laborious, to say the least.

At this stage, hurling crowds have an almost Pavlovian response to the sight of that crude computer-generated arc depicting the flight of the ball.