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Eight hurling championship observations: Did Cork and Limerick play better against the wind?

With the wind, Cork tend to go long and carry less. That won’t be as influential a factor in an All-Ireland final.

Wed, 11 Jun, 2025 - 15:49

Maurice Brosnan

In the official programmes for the two 2024 All-Ireland finals, ten experts were asked for their pre-match prediction: five football and five hurling. Nine of them called it wrong.

It is the kind of statistic that illustrates how difficult pre-match predictions really are. The game before the game is just as treacherous. Clare and Armagh were both marginal underdogs for the decider, but only one expert opted to back one of them. (Christy O’Connor – Clare, for anyone wondering.) Rest assured, this writer offered equally inaccurate forecasts within these pages too.

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