Dublin have won six All-Ireland senior hurling titles throughout their history but, remarkably, only one true Blue Dub featured in any of those successes.

He was Jim Byrne, who lined out at left half back when the Liam MacCarthy Cup last came to the capital in 1938. All of Dublin's previous All-Ireland winning teams were made up exclusively of players from other parts of the country who came to work and live in the capital at a time when a trip down the country took much longer than it does nowadays.

Legendary goalkeeper Jimmy Grey, who was one of the Dublin-born players who played in the 1961 All-Ireland final defeat to Tipperary, is keeping his fingers crossed that the class of 2013 - which features just three players from outside the capital - can rewrite the history books.

He told RTE recently: "The attitude in Dublin would have been largely football whether soccer, rugby or Gaelic football and hurling was seen as kind of a culchie game. To some extent, way back. And as a consequence only one Dublin born player, as you probably know, ever won an All-Ireland medal." Tweet

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