Proceed with caution: Why hurling must not be allowed to rest on its laurels
At first glance, hurling has never seemed stronger. The game is faster than ever before at the top level, where the competition has rarely been more finely balanced. Galway and Limerick won the last two All-Ireland finals but it would take a brave man to identify this season’s All-Ireland semi-finalists. Why is sounding a note of warning, then?
They say victorious generals returning in glory to ancient Rome had a slave accompany them on their chariots to remind them with a whisper, even as the cheers of the crowd rang out, that they were mortal.
