VOICE OF GAA IS WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON

THERE is something kaleidoscopic about All-Ireland hurling coverage, the capture and the rapture of something so... Irish.

- BY DEREK FOLEY

Moreover Marty Morrissey remains the wonder at trying to explain this for us, and the others.

He breathes that Cork and Tipp have 58 titles between them, and had never met in a final yet this was a rivalry of 'Bjorn Borg-John McEnroe (inset), Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano, Dublin-Kerry...' proportions.

The penalty shoot out was 'Toomevara versus Ballincollig' while there was also a mid-second-half shout out for 'Australia, New York, Boston or Bantry, you just gotta love the game of hurling....'

But if some lists can be jotted on the back of a smarties tube beforehand, there was little imagining the litany of second-half scores without reply.