JJ Delaney: Can Limerick maintain their hunger?

Former Kilkenny hurler JJ Delaney. Picture: INPHO/James Crombie

Take the great Kilkenny team that JJ Delaney was part of out of it, and you have to go back to Cork in the mid-2000s for the last team that dominated an era.

But for a 65-metre free that wasn’t awarded in last year’s All-Ireland semi-final against Kilkenny, Limerick may already have matched Cork’s back-to-back achievement of 2004 and 2005.