Kilkenny for the hurling, Tipperary for the men (which hasn't been true for 20 years but if you saw Paudie Maher's hit on Joe Canning from Sunday, they may just be getting back to that)

I was at the match - best game of hurling of the year - the atmosphere was something else.

yThe lads are sober there - that’s just the accent

“Ripping the piss” meaning not taking it seriously at all or “slagging”. I’m from Dublin and it can be hard to understand some country accents, but these guys are just laughing their way through this situation. There are T-shirts being sold here with some of their best phrases. After reaching the final, they were…

First time poster here - what the non-Irish are missing about these lads is how dry they are - they’ve done about five interviews with RTE and basically they’re ripping the piss with each one. Never mind the Skibereen accents, they are very smart lads. As they say themselves "Head down and pull like a dog"