A dim view of night hurling

IT’S a subject that was first raised by our own hurling expert, Tony Considine, last year, when he questioned the practicality of hurling under lights.

“Finally, I want to say here,” he said, after the Cork/Limerick National League game on a frigid Saturday evening in the Gaelic Grounds, “I’m not a fan of hurling under lights; maybe it was just the fact that the game was a damp squib, but there was zero atmosphere in the Gaelic Grounds, to match the zero temperature.”

He raised the question again a couple of weeks ago, after Tipp and Kilkenny had met in Thurles, the rain causing all kinds of problems for the players as they tried to follow the ball in the lights.