What’s in a name? Trophies reveal intriguing histories

Tomorrow evening Waterford or Tipperary will send a captain forward to raise the Munster Hurling Cup, assuming there is no draw.

It is a quirk of Munster that neither of its two senior trophies carry ‘proper’ names, with initial plans to name the hurling trophy after Waterford’s Dan Fraher never coming to fruition.

The province’s minor hurling cup doesn’t have an official name either but it is affectionately known as ‘the TWA’ after the ill-fated airline – the first to fly trans-Atlantic from Shannon — presented it in 1946.