All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final: All you need to know

SUNDAY 23 JULY

Limerick v Kilkenny, Croke Park, 3.30pm

ONLINE

Live blog on RTÉ.ie and the RTÉ News app. Highlights also available later on the day.

TV

Live coverage on RTÉ2 and the RTÉ Player from 2.30pm. Also live on BBC2 NI, from 3pm.

RADIO

Live commentary on RTÉ Radio 1's Sunday Sport - and on Ráidió na Gaeltachta's Spórt an Lae.

WEATHER

Wet and cloudy to start on Sunday with outbreaks of rain. The rain will gradually clear from northern and western counties during the morning, but is likely to linger in the east and south for a time. Maximum temperatures of 17 to 20 degrees with a moderate to fresh northerly breeze developing. For more go to met.ie.

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We have seen 33 games in this year's hurling championship and 13 teams in action, but ultimately it boils down to the same two sides standing as last year in Kilkenny and Limerick.

The Treaty men are favourites to become just the third team to win four All-Ireland titles on the trot, while facing them is a Kilkenny outfit becoming more accustomed to being the underdog on the big day.

For all the tradition involved with both sides, it is a fixture that has only played out on 15 occasions previously.

In 2005, current Kilkenny manager Derek Lyng picked off a point as the Cats overcame a second-half scoring purple patch from Limerick to book their place in the last four of the All-Ireland championship.

It was the first time the sides had met in the heat of championship fare in 31 years, and Brian Cody's side would win the next four