Weekend promises Munster showdown and Wexican stand-off

When I watched on at the events that unfolded in the Gaelic Grounds on 29 April between Limerick and Clare, I said to myself, that's it – that’s the game of the year, we won’t see anything like that again this year in terms of intensity and atmosphere.

As I sat on the wall in the greyhound track in Thurles watching the events in Ennis on my phone between Clare and Cork last Sunday before entering Tom Semple’s field, I again thought, wow, we can’t expect anything more from this, we’ll never get something to match all that, can we?

But the buzz around was that we just might. And as I sank back into my seat at around 5pm, in the middle of the old stand in Thurles, a Limerick fan turned around to me – we’d both voiced our opinions fairly strongly throughout the game, so I wasn’t sure what was coming, but he didn’t need to say a word – he simply put out his hand and we shook, both mentally drained, both knowing we had witnessed something incredible, something special from the teams we love and what a joy it was to be there to see it all.

We were wrecked watching. God Almighty, how did the players feel after it all?

When I was 10, I wanted a Sega Mega Drive more than anything in the world, and for Christmas the great man from the North Pole delivered. What the Munster Championship has been this year is the gifting of the Mega Drive, but Santa has set it up in the sitting room and has waited around for a game with you.

It just keeps on giving and I don't know if can we ask anymore of it this weekend, but of course like the greedy beings we are, we will expect more and the potential outcomes in both provinces are setting this up nicely for us mere mortals watching these idols go to battle once again.

In one province it’s all about