All you need to know: Kilkenny v Limerick

SUNDAY 17 JULY Kilkenny v Limerick, Croke Park, 3.30pm

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Cody and Cats rejuvenated

Kilkenny's chances of being back in an All-Ireland decider - their first in three years - didn't appear too hot back in May.

At the beginning of the year, there were rare whispers of dissension escaping out of Kilkenny, as folk wondered aloud whether the practice of simply rubber-stamping Brian Cody for another season every autumn might have had its day.

During the league - long ago universally recognised as a tedious irrelevance - Kilkenny attracted downbeat press, particularly in the wake of their Semple Stadium clash against Tipperary, which at the time was widely derided as a wretched game between middling teams who'd fallen a long way from the summit.

Their form in the Leinster round-robin was uneven and they lost two from three in the games it was possible for them to lose. While they doled out their regular Parnell Park hammering to the Dubs, they were flattered to lose by a single point to Galway in Salthill - albeit the late free which rescued the win for the hosts was heavily disputed - and then suffered a reversal at home to an inspired Wexford in the final group game, a result which could have had more consequences than it did.

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