Enda McEvoy: The championship is no longer a coronation. Cork and Tipp can stake a claim
Limerick have been winged, not holed. But it would not be overdoing it to assert that we now have a championship as opposed to a flower-strewn homecoming procession
BATTLE: Kyle Hayes of Limerick in action against David Fitzgerald of Clare during last weekend's Munster SHC clash. Pic: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile
On the basis that everything done by reigning champions, particularly these reigning champions, carries an outsized weight of significance, there can be no discussing events down by the Marina on Saturday night without first discussing events on the Ennis Road seven nights ago.
A butterfly gets its wings clipped in Limerick and the ground moves, slightly but perceptibly, in Cork and Thurles. Chaos theory, hurling-style. As if the expected 35,000 in Páirc Uí Chaoimh needed the slightest encouragement. The new place’ll be hoppin’.
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