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Published 14:10 29 Mar 2016 BST
Updated 18:21 29 Mar 2016 BST
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Speaking to the42.ie after the match Limerick hurler Darragh O’Donovan, a member of the Abbey CBS management team, detailed the immense commitment required.
“The boys were never going to get tired. We had a lot of work done with them over the year," said O'Donovan.
“We came in eight days over the Christmas, this week we were in four times, we’ve trained 6 o’clock in the morning, 7 o’clock in the morning, we’ve often done two hours after school.
“198 days we’ve been together, on the 10th of September we first met since we came back to school."
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This isn't new. Current Waterford hurling manager and De La Salle teacher, Derek McGrath, made St Stephen's Day training sessions a part of the school's preparations back in 2007-08, when they won back-to-back All-Irelands.
Many of those students are now key members of the Déise senior team but as player welfare and decreasing burnout become priorities for the GAA, should the training load placed on students - many of whom are in their Leaving Cert years - be regulated?
Students are making similar commitments at rugby-playing schools, such as those that compete in the Leinster and Munster Schools Cups, where training is just as intense and just as time-consuming.
Is it all too much?

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