You have been around for hurling’s most glorious decade. Rejoice and be glad

Championship 2019: wonder after wonder. Here’s a few of the highlights from the reel.

A chap finding the net in each of his eight outings, none of them a qualifier. Limerick completing the Shannonside Slam of championship, league, and province. Wexford’s first Leinster title in 15 years. Eddie Brennan’s Laois. Late-period Patrick Horgan, scoring goals off his knees. Late-period TJ Reid. Wexford’s finest Croke Park display since the 1996 Leinster final.

Two thunderous All- Ireland semi-finals, one of them a grim and fascinating arm wrestle, the other an affair so baroque (disallowed goals, disallowed points, full-backs scoring from deep in the enemy half, red cards that were and red cards that weren’t) as to be high rococo.