Nash didn’t kill anyone, but some suffer telling blows

The League may be only a week old, but there’s already much to ponder.

1. Penalties have been taken. Players remain alive.

The semi-hilarious, semi-ridiculous, wholly unbelievable campaign to outlaw what a small child would call “hard shots” from the 21 metre line took something of a blow last weekend when nobody was decapitated by one of the flying sliotar-missiles despatched by various players in the different games. Will life ever be sane again, mused Morrissey in a quite different context many years ago. On the evidence of the gibbering and howling about the “health and safety” issues faced by hurlers all of a sudden, it looks highly unlikely.