LIAM 08 - 2008 Hurling Championship - on 1 DVD

The 2008 hurling season is poised on the brink of history with just one

question on the lips of the hurling public: who could beat Kilkenny? Were

Kilkenny to rack up a third successive title it would bridge a gap of 30 years

since the feat was last achieved – and push the Cats to the top of hurling’s

roll of honour for the first time with 31 titles, one more than great rivals Cork.

Kilkenny have dominated the Leinster championship in recent years and although Offaly and Wexford will be keen to test them, the champions are un-backable. This Kilkenny team answers primarily to itself and is confident that if its own exacting standards are met, that will be enough.

Munster is as open as ever. Can Waterford finally establish the consistency to reach their first All-Ireland final in 45 years? Can Tipperary, under new management and fuelled by a series of good under-age teams, add championship success to a national league? Or will it be the turn of Limerick after their memorable surge to last season’s All-Ireland decider? Or Cork, whose own attempt at three in a row was derailed by Kilkenny two years ago.

Galway pushed the champions closest to the brink in 2007 and with the emergence of scoring sensation Joe Canning, the game’s hottest property, they believe in their prospects of success.

There is good reason why three-in-row All-Ireland sequences are rare. No matter how gifted and committed a team, the level of concentration and hunger necessary are truly exceptional. Can Kilkenny tick all of those boxes for the first time since 1913? Let’s find out.

Features highlights of all matches from the Provincial finals right through

to the All-Ireland Final. Narrated by Evanne Ní Chuilinn.