I'd never seen a hurling game, but I did know enough about its importance in Irish culture — one person described the final as “the Zenith of Irishness” — to know it would be an affront to my heritage to miss this opportunity.
"Through the peak season of a country triumphantly emerging from a long economic recession and austerity has, as always, been hallmarked by pure crazy craic in the worlds of music and dancing and Gaelic sport."
