“‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less,’”Watching Limerick dismantle Cork – again – raised a few questions and one of them was about the hurling league. The All-Ireland champions and Kilkenny in their pomp would be nobody’s idea of Humpty Dumpty but it has become clear that in both cases, the league meant exactly what they chose it to mean.
Every other team apart from Kilkenny to win the league in this timespan – Galway , Tipperary , Waterford and Dublin – with the exception of Tipp in 2001 failed to add the All-Ireland later in the year. If the value of a league was strictly dependent on what province you were in – Tipperary remain the only Munster county in more than 20 years to have won the league and championship double – what are we to make of the current situation?
Manager John Kiely used the league for his own purposes. As he told Michael Moynihan in the Irish Examiner last December, the approach to 2022 would entail, “…being aware of what’s needed at a particular time and sticking to the plan rather than responding to outside pressures . . . like losing the first two games of the league.”In 2018, Limerick finally emerged from Division 1B, ran Tipperary close in the semi-finals and took off on a run that led to their first All-Ireland in 45 years.
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