The inconvenience of it all peaked for Old Moran when it gradually became clear that the 2020 championship was in all likelihood going to go ahead. This might just appear to be needless fretting but other more obvious and intensely practical problems were easy to foresee. Might players feel queasy about having to fulfil a fixture in some county that has recently become rampantly infected? Whenever Young Moran declared himself bored, his mother would quip, ‘well you must be very boring’. And the truth all of these years later was that he yearned for less interesting times.

Source: The Irish Times October 14, 2020 05:00 UTC