Obituary: In a new era of Gaelic games, the Railway Cup ran out of line

The cancellation of this year’s interpros looks to have sounded the death-knell for a once-great GAA competition, writes John Fogarty.

When Kilkenny man Dermot Kavanagh went about putting together the history of the Railway Cup hurling last year, he still held out hope that it might not serve as a eulogy to the competition.

“It’s the last throw of the dice for it now but if the club hurling final was moved to Thurles and the final played before that, it might work,” he told this newspaper 12 months ago.