Cats on sparsely populated plateau

LAST WEEK Muhammad Ali came to town.

Cats on sparsely populated plateau

This week we assigned his title to practitioners in another code.

Kilkenny reeled in their fourth consecutive All-Ireland senior hurling title yesterday in Croke Park, beating a youthful Tipperary side by five points, and ascended to a level all their own in the hurling pantheon. The first side to win four-in-a-row since Cork from 1941-44, the Cats have earned the title once held by the big Ennis man fighting out of Kentucky.

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