A giant seesaw game of hurling we feared had gone with the dodo

Give or take the drawn 1993 Leinster final it was the finest meeting of Kilkenny and Wexford since the 1970s

TOUGH TO TAKE: A dejected Davy Fitzgerald after Wexford lost out in a classic against Kilkenny in Saturday’s Leinster SHC semi-final at Croke Park. Picture: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Ran into a chap called Tony from near Fermoy on Friday afternoon. Shrewd hurling man, keen Examiner reader.

The ensuing conversation took lines that were not so much predictable as inevitable. You know what hurling folk are like when they get together.