And so the dust has settled on the hurling championship.
Kilkenny have reigned supreme yet again and while the quality on offer from May to September may not have reached the heights of previous seasons, there was still much for the Sunday Game pundits to look back on.
You had Joe Canning's wonder goal in the Leinster final, Waterford's re-emergence under Derek McGrath and the heart-warming sight of Noel McGrath coming on as a sub for Tipperary in the All-Ireland semi-final, four months on from being diagnosed with testicular cancer
