Can Limerick buck the trend to achieve a Munster hurling threepeat?

As accomplished and capable as they are, multiple All-Ireland winning teams like them are among the eight teams since 1989 to have attempted to follow a second Mackey Cup with a third only to come a cropper

THE LAST THREEPEAT: Tipperary’s Nicky English battling with Waterford’s Timmy Sheehan in the 1989 Munster SHC final in Thurles. Tipperary’s victory saw them complete their three-in-a-row of Munster titles, the last time the feat was achieved.

For 32 years, the three in a row in the Munster senior hurling championship has remained elusive.

Not since Babs Keating’s Tipperary beat Waterford in 1989 has a team pulled off the feat. That stretch of success followed Cork’s famous five from 1982 to 1986, which replicated the county’s run of provincial triumphs from 1975 to 1979. Tipperary previously pulled off the three in a row in 1962.