All Ireland Hurling Final: Ulster links and how Kilkenny great Brian Cody is like the Sir Alex Ferguson of hurling

A couple of years before he was the 19-year-old who squeezed into the starting line-up of the Kilkenny team for the 1973 All-Ireland Final — a 1-21 to 1-14 loss to Limerick no less — Brian Cody was a teenager surrounded by men on a journey into the unknown.