Hurling needs investment to win new hearts and minds

So here’s a thing: There are three counties left in the Munster Senior Hurling Championship and three counties from the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship are still in contention to win the All-Ireland.

Each of these six counties — Cork, Limerick, Clare, Kilkenny, Galway, and Wexford — competed in the first ever All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship.

And if you add in the two fourth-place teams in each of the provincial championships — Dublin and Tipperary — you have the full complement of counties who entered (in any real sense) that first ever All-Ireland championship back in 1887.