Tipp repay O’Shea’s faith

Curiouser and curiouser.

You would have been offered odds of at least 1,500/1 three years ago had you bet on a hat-trick of All-Ireland hurling draws and yet, here we are, in another September to be bookended by a tale that teases, thrills and torments.

Eamon O’Shea had spent the afternoon on the sideline, close enough to feel the tail of the tornado whipping by his feet, but he sat down afterwards straightbacked and with one leg crossed over another in a perfect picture of serenity.