Hurling heroes adorn a final epic
It is Celtic, passionate, skilful, beautiful to the eye and the sporting mind. It demands courage, manliness, a whole range of the most subtle arts, both in the air and on the ground. It demands lightning reflexes, superb fitness, pace power and purpose.
At its very best it demands an almost sublime commitment, an alchemic fusing of man and wood and leather, brain and brawn, body and mind. Up there, when the ash clashes in combat, these young men with the eyes of eagles, filled with fire to the point of a controlled ferocity, etch sporting images which are unique to that surreal and elastic thing which we call our culture. There are no brighter or more compelling images than those in our sporting cabinet.
