Michael Moynihan: Mining for hurling positives on Jones’ Road

The curtain-raiser? That turned out to be an affair of all Christians and no ferocious mammals. Dublin and Galway’s dour clash in the Leinster hurling championship was, for lengthy stretches, a matter of what wasn’t happening, and the fact that it ended without a definitive result was in tune with the general proceedings.
Everywhere you looked in GAA HQ there was a confrontation which wasn’t working out as expected, or hoped. The clash of Iarla Tannian of Galway and Dublin’s Liam Rushe, for instance, looked on paper like a re-run of Ali-Foreman in Zaire, but it never really materialised, with Rushe eventually moving to the wing in order to have an impact.