Championship 2024 preview: No hurling team has ever won five All-Irelands in a row

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Like the opening scene from Gangs of New York, the Munster championship is a turf war, arranged by appointment and decided by knives and hatchets

John Kiely’s side seem capable of answering all the questions in pursuit of hurling immortality — but can it really be that simple?GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Final, Croke Park, Dublin 23/7/2023 Kilkenny vs Limerick The Limerick team celebrate Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/James Crombie, are there any other questions? If they have the best players, the deepest panel, the greatest bank of experience, the smartest coach, if they are the authors of the standard, should there be any...

It is extraordinary to think that Limerick are already the third team this century to have this chance. Out of the blue, bingeing on All-Irelands became a thing. Is there anything Limerick can glean from the experiences of the others? Is anything recyclable?team, was the performance coach with the Dublin footballers when they pulled it off in 2019. A few months later he spoke about the mental landscape they had trekked across, trusting their compass and doing without for a map.

One of the critical differences between what Limerick face now and what Kilkenny and Dublin faced in those seasons, though, is early season jeopardy. In 2019, Dublin won their first six championship matches by an average of 16 points and were never going to meet a team that might beat them until the All-Ireland semi-final, at the earliest.

Ryan Taylor’s comeback from an ACL injury suffered in Croke Park last summer is a work in progress. Photograph: Evan Treacy/Inpho Tipperary’s Noel McGrath: ‘It was never a burden to talk about it, the least I could do was give back’

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