The John Horgan column: Munster hurling will be more cutthroat that ever

We’ll concentrate on Munster here, with the five competing counties and the belief that there’s very little between any of them.

That may well be the case, but would you rule out Clare and Waterford?

For Cork, this is a huge game: win it and you have leeway; lose it and the pressure is on and it could mean having to go to Thurles for the last game and needing to beat the All-Ireland champions in their own backyard.

In the third game in the series, you have Cork travelling to Waterford and Clare hosting Limerick and those games will be fascinating.
