John Fogarty: Hurling’s seven deadly sins and how to absolve them

The attention devoted to football last year now needs to shift to hurling. It hasn’t lost its way as much as football but there are sins to be absolved

If black carding the third person entering a row applied to hurling, the scuffles during Galway's clash with Cork on Saturday would have been avoided. Pic: Ben McShane/Sportsfile

If the reaction to Noel Skehan’s remarks in this newspaper last week are anything to go by, there are many other people not happy with how hurling is being played.

Denis Donohoe in Kildorrery strongly backed the former Kilkenny goalkeeper’s claim that the blight of thrown passes can only be answered by banning the hand-pass entirely.