Before you can read the game, you have to know the alphabet. Ahead of the Tipp-Waterford Munster final, Larry Ryan studies the curriculum of this fixture’s glorious history.

THE death occurred in Dromcollogher of Donal Broderick, corner-back on the Limerick team which shocked Clare in the 1955 Munster senior hurling final, and which became known as Mackey’s greyhounds. Limerick lost to Wexford in the All-Ireland semi-finals.