Cool Cotter calls checkmate but rules must change

Thank goodness for September Sundays. Even though the hurling championship, in its new compressed, more efficient form, no longer involves a September day out, we still have camogie. 

It’s the pinnacle of the year, in which the women’s code takes over Croker for the day and the RTÉ TV schedule while they’re at it. Yesterday, the junior, intermediate and senior titles were all decided on that immaculate plaid-striped pitch.

From the off, the senior match-up between Cork and Kilkenny was always going to be something to savour. Like the Tipp-Kilkenny hurling finals of 2009-11, this was to be the third outing in an epic trilogy.