Can Limerick grab this opportunity?

It’s probably someone or other’s law. Not Murphy’s, not Sod’s, but one of that crew.

And this is how it reads: Be blessed with a fabulous June and July in the hurling championship and inevitably you’ll get an All-Ireland quarter-final bill that stinks the place out.

Thus it was at Semple Stadium on Sunday, a day on which – shades of Beckett – nothing good happened, twice. Yet this car crash of an afternoon paradoxically left us with a host of intriguing sidebars and sub-headings, not to mention two inordinately attractive looking semi-finals, the second of them a unique superpower collision. Here are some of the main talking points.