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.

A FEW weeks ago, in a ‘Where are they now’ piece on the Kilkenny/Limerick teams from the 1973/74 All-Ireland finals, I wrote that in 1974 Nicky Orr was the first Protestant to captain a Kilkenny team to an All-Ireland title.