Where have all the preachers gone?

WHILE we here in Talking Sport Towers don’t usually get into flogging a dead horse, sometimes you feel the whip in your hand and think, well, there’s another few stripes to be laid across the haunches.

Like you, gentle reader, we were astonished to see the blow received by Tipperary hurler Paul Curran last Saturday in the All-Ireland qualifier game against Dublin in Parnell Park. The incident removed Curran from the game and it’ll be surprising to see him in the blue and gold again this season. His jaw is broken so badly that his manager, Babs Keating, said it was one of the worst facial injuries he had ever seen.

Given that Babs soldiered through a far-from-zero-tolerance disciplinary regime in the sixties, that’s some statement.