A sporting tale to warm the heart

NO SHORTAGE of topics this week, is there?

Another chapter in the sorry saga that is now the Leinster senior hurling championship — what will it take for people to realise that the current senior hurling championship structure is seriously flawed, perhaps even fatally flawed.

Then there was Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Sunday, all that drama. Great game, let it be said, great football played in the second half, and with one eye on the Leinster minor hurling final, one eye on the monitor of the RTÉ broadcast from Cork, it was one of the few times in my life where the football took over.