Tipp’s old dogs teach Cats lesson
Half a century later it remains one of hurling’s most curious footnotes. Tipperary didn’t start as white-hot favourites for the 1964 All-Ireland final. They didn’t even start as red-hot favourites. In fact they didn’t start as favourites at all.
Kilkenny were the defending champions and, with a young and presumably improving team, were generally fancied to get the better of a supposedly ageing Tipp. After all, John Doyle had been around the place since 1949, and Kieran Carey and Mick Maher, his buddies in Hell’s Kitchen, were no spring chickens either. But it didn’t quite turn out that way. In fact it didn’t turn out that way at all.
