Just when you thought the hurling bar couldn’t be raised any higher....

Over half a century ago Harold MacMillan reduced all of politics to those four words. Even now it’ll have to do as a description of Galway-Clare on Saturday evening.

Just when you thought the hurling bar couldn’t be raised any higher....

By Michael Moynihan, Croke Park

Events, dear boy, events.

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