Dominated by Kilkenny and now Galway, the two meet this Sunday with pressure on Tribes boss Henry Shefflin to deliver silverware.
Declan Bogue IT WASN’T EXACTLY A call to arms, but Eoin Cody’s acceptance speech when taking delivery of the Bob O’Keefe Cup last year was a little push-back against those that do a bit of panting around the Munster hurling championship.
They had raced 0-6 to 0-1 clear by the seventh minute. Kilkenny returned fire with an unanswered 1-5. On it went in this fashion, the waves beating against the boats until they arrived in the tumult of four minutes left and the sides level. Kevin Cooney and TJ Brennan put two points in it, in Galway’s favour.
Kilkenny win it at the death! - Cillian Buckley's last-gasp winner seals the 2023 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship for Kilkenny. pic.twitter.com/9g1BZVPdQS Dublin are the next closest challenger with 24 triumphs, but only one since 1961. Wexford, always popular winners for their sheer exuberance, don’t win it enough, Offaly’s nine triumphs came in a 16-season period and Laois won in 1914, 1915 and 1949.
Since 2010, they have made the final ten times, but won only three. Since the switch to round robin format they won just once; that coming after a replay against Kilkenny in 2018. In some cases, it is cruel. Leinster is identified as the gateway to proper, serious hurling for the aspirational counties such as Laois, Westmeath, Carlow and northern guests Antrim. But you wonder how they stomach some of the margins of defeat. Westmeath have had some tough evenings. In 2022 for example, they fell to Kilkenny by 16 points a week before Galway mowed them down by 25.
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