This is a list of All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winning managers.
All this changed with the appointment of a strong manager, surrounded by a small group of selectors.
This feat has only been equalled once before, when Cork won four in a row from 1941 to 1944, but this was in a time when selection panels rather than individual managers looked after teams, making Cody's feat unequalled in the modern era.
In 1981 and 1985 Dermot Healy, a native of Kilkenny, became the first "outsider" manager when he guided Offaly to the All-Ireland titles.
In 1994 Éamonn Cregan steered the county to victory over his native Limerick in the All-Ireland final.