Limerick are now the barometer of excellence and Kilkenny are recast as plucky underdogs. Where did those five years go?DeclanBogue
In one corner, we have the assured champions who seldom put a foot wrong. Who guard against complacency and despise compliments.
When you have been a team that wins their first, you get the emotional waves of neutrals crashing on your shores. It’s a quick, hard and fast process of falling in love. You’d have to have huge admiration for how John Kiely goes about his business. I’m sure he’d be delighted with the compliment. In lack of self-awareness, it ranks alongside the Kevin Bridges set-piece when he talks about the Glaswegian who couldn’t afford his bus fare offering financial advice to Mark Zuckerburg that he should charge people ‘a quid a go’ to use Facebook. But all the same, it’s there for him.“I’m not a vital cog in the wheel. Nor do I want to be. I shouldn’t be.
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