When two tribes go to war...
When I was co-commentating with Tommy Walsh on Eir Sport for the Tipperary-Wexford game in February, we were shooting the breeze beforehand. The talk drifted back to the evening Dublin beat Kilkenny in Portlaoise in the 2013 Leinster semi-final, and the desolation and devastation I witnessed when I spoke (not often I got the chance) to the Kilkenny players in their dressing room afterwards.
Kilkenny looked absolutely broken. They were ravaged with injuries, and were now about to face their third big game within 13 days. On the way back up the corridor, I said to Dublin selector Richie Stakelum that Kilkenny would be some group of men if they could somehow lift it for Tipperary in the qualifiers just seven days later. I thought there was no way that they could.
