Hurling needs heavier sliotar

For the second Sunday in a row, Ballygiblin’s Darragh Flynn performed heroics for the Cork minors. Eight points against Tipperary including five from play, he added 1-10 in Limerick two days ago, his seventh and final free securing a draw from what must have been over 80 metres out.

For all the genuine concerns that the quality of minor hurling has dropped since moving from U18 to U17, the entertainment served up by Cork and Limerick’s teenagers flew in the face of that and it was appropriate that a strike as audacious as Flynn’s crowned the game.