FOR years the Kilkenny-Tipperary rivalry lay idle, softened by the few intermittent meetings that the passing summers deemed fit to bestow, but the Fenians club experienced its resurrection first-hand this time last year.

THINK about corporate Kilkenny, of the team dynamic that has propelled them to so much success under the inspired management of Brian Cody and the training methods of Mick O’Flynn.

THERE is still no room on the Kilkenny team for team captain Charlie Carter.