Parnell Park hosts the Dublin hurling semi-finals this weekend and the double bill of Lucan Sarsfields-Ballyboden St Enda’s and Na Fianna-Kilmacud Crokes carries the same jeopardy that terminated the campaign of All-Ireland football champions Cuala last Sunday.

This time it’s the All-Ireland hurling champions Na Fianna who put their title on the line against Kilmacud, the opponents who but for a baffling sequence of missed frees and a goal conceded deep in injury time might last year have stopped the All-Ireland champions before they got going at all.

It’s a busy schedule with county finals beginni

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