Electric entrée as Kilkenny outlast Dublin

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Parnell Park buried any lingering thoughts of careful strategising and hoarding of resources in the new hurling dispensation. Dublin and Kilkenny fought themselves to a standstill at Parnell Park, as though they were never again to take the field, let alone face another appointment next week.

If Napoleon never actually said “You get stuck in, and then you see,” he should have: It was a theorem made flesh yesterday in Dublin 3.