There may be blood, but nowhere to hide

“We are 91 days from the end of this decade and there’s gonna be a lot of refugees... If you’re hanging onto a rising balloon, you are presented with a difficult decision. Let go before it’s too late or hang on and keep getting higher, posing the question: how long can you keep a grip on the rope? They’re selling hippie wigs in Woolworths, man. The greatest era in the history of mankind is over. And as Presuming Ed here has so consistently pointed out, we have failed to paint it black.”

Not from Kilkenny or Tipperary and want to know what tonight in Nowlan Park really means? Consider the following tale.

Barrie Henriques – commentator, columnist, ex-publican, raconteur and all-round renaissance man – was at home in Callan the morning after last year’s All-Ireland semi-final when the phone rang.