It wasn't just the sun which shone brightly this summer........

Fresh from the Department of No Further Ado, the end of season hurling awards. Often copied but never equalled, the jury (Michael Moynihan, alone) has reported in.

The talk is cheap but better than silence or quote of the year award:

Who else? The man who said, as he resigned from inter-county refereeing: “The general feeling among a lot of the public — friends and indeed members of own club, county and community — would have said I had a very good chance of refereeing the final.”