Anthony Daly: A roaring twenties awaits — and hurling will be much better for it

This decade has been a fusion of revolution and domination.

A few weeks back, I read an article on this hurling decade. The journalist neatly rated and termed the standard in the context of the two decades which preceded it. If the 1990s were called the ‘Revolution Years’, the 2000s were labelled the ‘Something Years’, which was a roundabout description of Kilkenny’s stranglehold on that period.

The journalist described this decade as the ‘Sexy Years’. He might not have got away with that expression in times past but the journalist wasn’t far wrong. Because it was defined by class and brilliance and a rising standard in skill and tactics.