Championship talking points: Terrific Tipperary rest for a week and sit down to a rich diet of praise

2019’s hurling was always vulnerable to Cecil B DeMille’s law: “The way to make a film is to begin with an earthquake and work up to a climax.”

2018’s hurling endures as wonderful disaster, a spectacle in want of follow-up. Last summer’s contests remain so enthralling, so perfect, and so lethal.