1975: The summer the West was stirred from its slumber

It was the day of the first 70-minute All Ireland final.

It was the day Kilkenny, strange as this may sound now, won successive titles for the first time in four decades. And, above all, it was the day a new power stepped onto the big stage for the first time.

September 7, 1975. The day thatmodern Galway hurling began.