Missed free? I can’t remember it

Tipperary’s Eoin Kelly is physically stronger and mentally tougher than at any stage of his glittering hurling career — right down to the practised art of selective amnesia perfected by Jack Nicklaus.

HE didn’t script it, it just came blurting out, that line about sinking ships.

About the only time Eoin Kelly put any thought into his All-Ireland-winning speech was the night before the final itself as he rested against the headboard of his bed at home, pen and paper in hand, and set a few ground rules for himself.