Time to take a serious look at Limerick’s credentials

Mirabilis or horribilis? Your opinion of the hurling year so far probably owes a good deal to what happens when you turn on that geolocator on your phone, the one feeding all your personal information to a bot factory in Kazakhstan.

Yesterday will cause anguish in the eastern and northern reaches of the Munster region, because both Waterford and Tipperary have a long empty summer in which to mull over their hurling futures.

Both sides exited yesterday, with Waterford being barbecued by Limerick on a dank afternoon in the Gaelic Grounds, while time finally ran out on Tipperary’s games of Russian roulette. With Waterford-Limerick decided long before the final whistle, there was keen interest in the Mackey Stand in the online updates from Semple Stadium, but it was still difficult to fathom that the All-Ireland finalists and semi-finalists from last year were both gone from the championship by 4pm on June 10.