Colm returns with the next round of pints from the bar and takes his seat on the wooden bench beside you, where you sit watching the hurling game on television. It's Galway playing the team from Tipp. Everyone's rooting for Galway, because that's where you are.
Colm is a good tour guide and he has been filling you in on the last 2,000 years of Irish athletic history. "This is the fastest game in the world after ice hockey. Mad dangerous too. Someone's always getting clobbered."