Tradition still packs quite a wallop

After the revolution, the restoration.

Kilkenny collected the All-Ireland title on Saturday night to underline once again their dominance of the game in recent years. And maybe to add an asterisk or two in addition to an exclamation mark in the space alongside their names on the roll of honour.

Last year we had novelty in the All-Ireland final, but last weekend — and the one preceding, come to that — shows, as AJ Liebling once said, that tradition still packs a nasty wallop.