Dónal Óg Cusack: Is someone going to come up with something different?

After another All-Ireland for Limerick today - their fourth on the bounce - Dónal Óg Cusack was this evening considering how they can be stopped in 2024.

The Treaty men went in behind against Kilkenny at Croke Park but an explosive second half saw them outscore the Leinster champions by 21 points to 1-06 to win pulling up in the last five minutes.

It means that next season they can do something that no other county has done before in senior hurling before - win a fifth All-Ireland in a row.

"Is someone going to come up with something different?" Cusack asked rhetorically on The Sunday Gane.

"We're almost all living in Limerick's world here, playing the game that they're so comfortable at. In the first half there were some brilliant balls played out by the Kilkenny defence.

"Limerick were nearly happy that they were going for this type of game so it's going to be really interesting over the next couple of years.

"There's loads of different ways to play hurling and every great team brings their own way. Limerick have brought this way [so] will someone come up with a different way of taking them on?

"Because playing them at their own game hasn't worked for anyone over the last couple of years.

"The great, great teams change the way sport is and from an overall standard Limerick have raised the bar well beyond everybody else over the last number of years. From a physicality point of view, a skill execution point of view.

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"Their efficency today was 73% versus 49% [for Kilkenny] - that's an incredible difference in an All-Ireland final.

"They've got generational players, which is probably the most important