Diarmuid Connolly's young brother Thomas will start for Dublin in tomorrow's Bord Gáis Energy Leinster U-21 Hurling Championship final at Wexford Park (throw-in 7.30pm).

YOU often hear people hark back to hurling’s glory days, to Limerick and Kilkenny in the 30s, Cork and Tipp in the 40s, Wexford in the 50s, Tipp again in the 60s, Kilkenny and Cork in the 70s, the rise of the underdogs in the 90s, Kilkenny again dominant in the 00s, but in all of those eras it was just a few teams at the top.