HERE COMES THE SUMMER

2025 Championship to be one hell of a rollercoaster

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STEP right up for the greatest show on earth.

Championship 2025 is here folks. Balls will fly and grown men will cry. Ash will clash and bodies will bash. Highs and lows. Guaranteed thrills and spills galore.

Men in helmets will be implored to 'pull hard', by other men on ditches who talk wistfully of 'lovely, wristy hurlers'.

Someone will solo and go and then they'll be gone. That'll be that, never to be seen or heard of again.

It will emerge the day before it happens that a big Munster Hurling Championship game won't be on TV.

And the same people who were outraged this time last year, and the year before, will be outraged again.

'This is outrageous,' they'll say. Then they'll say this GAA+ is no better than GAAGO.

Sure enough, politicians will queue up to wade in with some populist waffle about our 'iconic' national games.

And like night follows day, someone with no self-awareness whatsoever that follows some professional sport or other, will post their fortnightly tweet labeling the GAA 'the grab-alls.

Football referees won't care a jot though as they hit Ibiza for a mid summer party with their new spray foam cans.

Meanwhile, up in the capital Dublin will win their 378th Leinster football title.

This magnificent achievement though will be overshadowed by an unfortunate incident at a ground in the midlands as a GPS tracker explodes.

The player takes some consolation that his heat map is off the charts.

With his FRC work done, and football games higher scoring than hurling games, Jim Gavin will hire out his massive glasses for parties, functions and conferences.

Meanwhile, up in Ulster, no-one has told them that the provincial championships aren't that big a deal any more as they knock seven lumps of Jimmy White out of each other.

And as things heat up down in Munster, John Kiely will look people straight in the eye.