Impossible not to feel sympathy for the boys of summer

Jack Leamy: Tipperary’s top-scorer during last year’s Munster minor campaign.

In a Covid-19-free world, the Munster minor hurling championship would have thrown-in over the weekend, hurling’s latest batch of bright young things ushered into the championship arena at Páirc Uí Chaoimh and Walsh Park. No more than the senior inter-county competitions, there’s a chance there’ll be no All-Ireland minor championship this year, meaning those 16 and 17-year olds we’d have been identifying as future senior prospects will have to wait another while yet before the opportunity is there to mark themselves out on the inter-county front.

Had the GAA calendar not been ripped to shreds, also torpedoing the Leinster MHC which was scheduled to begin on April 25, here are 10 minor hurlers we likely would have been talking about over the coming weeks.