In an exciting game, Tipperary were winning by three points with three minutes remaining, but Kilkenny fought back to score two goals to secure the victory.

Terry Leahy was the hero for Kilkenny as he scored the winning point in the dying seconds of the game.

They regained the Leinster title in 1943, but Antrim pulled off the biggest hurling shock of all-time by defeating 'the Cats' in the All-Ireland semi-final.

The Munster men led by a large margin at half-time; Kilkenny fought back but it was not enough to deny Tipp.

Terry Leahy scored the winning point once again for Kilkenny to give the county its thirteenth All-Ireland title.

However, they were later beaten by Tipperary in the championship decider as the Munster men completed the second leg of a famous three-in-a-row.

An ageing Tipp team provided the opposition; however, Kilkenny got goals at vital times and secured a famous victory.

That team featured such star players as Eddie Keher, Dick O'Hara, Ollie Walsh, Noel Skehan, Frank Cummins, Fan Larkin and Pat Henderson to name but a few.

1969 saw Kilkenny wrest the Leinster title back from Wexford and qualify for an All-Ireland final appearance against Cork.

However, the Munster champions were too good for an ageing Kilkenny side and duly captured their third championship in-a-row.

The early 1980s saw the great Kilkenny team of the 1970s break up as Offaly emerged as a new force in Leinster.

Christy Heffernan's two goals in a forty-second spell gave Kilkenny a victory over Cork in the subsequent All-Ireland final.

Two years later in 1986, 'the Cats' captured the National League before reclaiming the Leinster championship title from Offaly, although the team were defeated by Galway in the All-Ireland semi-final.

Ultimately though, like they had done so many times in the past, Tipperary defeated Kilkenny, twenty years on since their last meeting, to win the final.

His successor, Kevin Fennelly, brought the county back to their winning ways by capturing a Leinster title in 1998[3] at the expense of Offaly GAA.

The prospect of becoming the first side in history to lose three successive championship deciders was a huge motivating factor.

[11] As Kilkenny began to assert their dominance on the hurling world the team later captured another set of Leinster and All-Ireland titles.

Cork, who were attempting to capture their own three-in-a-row, provided the opposition; however, victory went to a superior Kilkenny side.

[14] Nevertheless, they reached the final and after a titanic battle with old rivals Tipperary which included a controversial penalty being awarded towards the end of the game, Kilkenny secured a four-in-a-row with a five-point win over Tipperary, who mounted a formidable challenge to their crown in an absorbing final which made up for the mis-matches of the two previous years when only token resistance was presented by Limerick and Waterford.

Kilkenny then met Galway in the All-Ireland Final, and when Joe Canning scored the last point of the game, he forced a replay (the first since 1959).

However Kilkenny won the replayed All-Ireland Final on a scoreline of 3–22 to 3–11, their ninth success in thirteen championship seasons.

Kilkenny got off to a good start in 2013, winning their 17th National Hurling League title beating Tipperary in the final.

In the 2013 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship, Kilkenny succumbed to defeat by an improving Dublin side in the semi-final.

The hot summer weather added to the electric atmosphere at Nowlan Park as Kilkenny went on to beat Tipperary.

This would prove to be the highlight for Kilkenny's season as they scraped a victory over Waterford after extra time and were beaten by old foes Cork at the quarter final stage in Semple Stadium.

This was the first time Kilkenny failed to make the semi-final stage since the 1996 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship with many[who?]

The 2018 season began very interesting with a 2018 Walsh Cup final appearance with Wexford ending in a first ever free scoring competition narrowly won by the 'Model county'.

The following week Kilkenny were pitted against the soon to be All-Ireland Champions Limerick in a titanic battle, with Eoin Murphy on goal keeping the Cats hopes alive with outstanding blocking skills and after a Richie Hogan goal late in the second half looked to have turned the tide for Kilkenny it was Limericks young talent who finished the game strongly on a scoreline of 0–27 to 1-22.

An exciting and busy Championship 2018 ended for Kilkenny in a determined and hopeful fashion with the 2019 season already promising an ever improving and interesting prospect.

These results earned them an All-Ireland Final spot against great rivals Tipperary and their returning 2010 management team who went on to win the title, hammering Kilkenny on a scoreline of 3–25 to 0-20.