There were fights before throw in when Kilkenny met Tipperary but little in the Premier County when the action focused on the sliotar. Rugby came back into focus but Paul O’Connell said enough to captaincy of Munster.  Damien Duff went further and bade farewell to a glittering international soccer career and Frankel laid claim to being the racehorse of this and perhaps any other generation with a 15th victory at York.