Ireland finish the season on 10 points, atop our group table having bested all foes (well ok, we drew with Denmark), but the players were feeling down after last night’s win. Big Mick told them “never mind the quality, feel the points total”. So was last night’s cross-fest a realistic predictor of how we will do against better teams, or a self contained horror show best forgotten?

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Ken Early was there, questioning his life choices, and he spoke to David Sneyd and Gavin Cooney of The42 after the game. We also discuss Mick’s public face, creativity as something you can fashion yourself – not just a finite resource – and the eternal conundrum of James McClean.

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Michael Duignan is on the line to talk to us about the hurling summer thus far, and why Galway/Kilkenny was much more like it after a couple of weekends of blow-out victories. And we ask the question – is Henry Shefflin even the best Ballyhale hurler of all time?

 

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Plus there’s Ken’s player ratings Danish TV styleee, The FAI’s genius plan and Bieber V Cruise.

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