This year’s Munster Championship hasn’t caught fire like last year’s — which was a tall order; looking back now there was a once-every-20-years quality to the 2018 vintage. When the Leinster hurling championship became dangerously one-sided, GAA chiefs were able to parachute in a Galway side desperate for competitive games: a solution that suited everybody. McCann will face the musicTiernan McCann was the name on most lips this morning in GAA circles, which is appropriate enough. Crunching the Munster numbersBecause sports journalists tend to struggle in totting up the scorers at a hurling game (“1-10? 1-10?”), working out the permutations of the Munster senior hurling championship has proved testing for many colleagues.

Source: Irish Examiner June 11, 2019 04:41 UTC