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Mon 09 Sep 2008This is greatness. This is Kilkenny now
GAELIC GAMES: KILKENNY ARE different. They need All-Irelands in the way an infant needs regular feedings. It's a survival thing. A life thing. Yesterday they won their 31st and sailed into the history books.
Won? It was like Bob Beamon's long jump or Usain Bolt's 100 metres. Won is not the word. Winning implies struggle and all the complications offered by another team. This was just an emphatic laying claim to immortality. This was a day when opposition was irrelevant. Waterford, the plucky challengers, hindered Kilkenny about as much as cones in training.
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