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• Cummins shuns the hand of history in Premier glory quest September 4, 2010
  The last time a team had an unprecedented five All-Ireland titles in-a-row chance snatched away from them, seven-year-old Brendan Cummins sat on his father's lap in the upper deck of the Hogan Stand and "cried like the rain" at what unfolded in front of him.
• A million reasons for Tipp to succeed September 4, 2010
  In Palmerstown House yesterday on the outskirts of Naas, 50 teams lined up at €800 apiece to play the superb PGA National golf course and raise funds -- through the vehicle of the Tipperary supporters' club -- for the senior hurling team's training fund.
• counting the cost September 4, 2010
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• Seven heavenly virtues can lift Kilkenny to famous five September 4, 2010
  Power, Pace, Poise, Precision, Pattern, Persistence, Perception. Not so much the seven deadly sins as the seven heavenly virtues which underpin so much of what successful teams do and how they achieve it.
• Cats ready to take step into fifth dimension September 4, 2010
  MICK O'Dwyer has always contended that Kerry's five-in-a-row ambitions in 1982 were derailed not when Seamus Darby smashed the ball to the net late in the All-Ireland final, but when Jimmy Deenihan broke his ankle in training 15 weeks earlier.