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Tue 07 Jul 2007Lower-tier teams, not Galway, answer to Leinster imbalanceTackling the Kilkenny monopoly: Gavin Cummiskeytalks to Liam O'Neill who says bringing in an outsider is not the answerThe state of hurling comes back under the microscope in the wake of Sunday's lopsided Leinster final, but provincial council chairman Liam O'Neill was keen to avoid a knee-jerk reaction to Wexford's 15-point defeat that saw Brian Cody's Kilkenny claim the eighth provincial title of his nine-year tenure.