Michael Moynihan: There’s a curious new sound of summer across the championship playing fields

Referee, Mark Maher, throws the sliothar in to start the first hurling championship game of 2020, with Donal English and Paul Leopold, Sarsfields, Cormac Walsh and Sam Quirke, Midleton. Picture: Jim Coughlan.

It’s well established that there’s no such thing as simple observation in science - that organisms, groups, people, and other phenomena are changed because of that observation.

What about phenomena which are not observed, or at least observed in the flesh (as opposed to the excellent Irish Examiner live-stream)?