It would have been odd had it been otherwise. Kilkenny’s 2-4 to 1-2 victory helped deliver their third All-Ireland title in as many years and their seventh since the turn of the twentieth century.

Once the world’s leading whiskey producer in the 18th and 19th centuries, Dublin’s Liberties was the beating ... "Red Book of Ossory," written in Co Kilkenny in Ireland’s Ancient East.