Ollie Canning: Whelan getting 'that little bit of support at the right time' 

Kevin Cooney, Cianan Fahey and Evan Niland coming into their own. 

DALO LIVE: Anthony Daly, T.J. Reid, Mark Landers, Ollie Canning and Eddie Brennan at the Irish Examiner’s Dalo’s Hurling Show live from Fitzgeralds Woodlands House Hotel & Spa, Limerick. Pic: Dan Linehan

Towards the end of Thursday evening’s Dalo live show, a question came from the floor of the Woodlands Treehouse inquiring which hurler has most impressed the panelists this summer.

The question had hardly been asked when Dalo replied with the initials TK. No surprises there.