For the best part of an hour or so the eras were in seemingly neat transition. Post Joe Canning, presently Henry Shefflin, Galway were ideally placed to begin their Leinster hurling championship campaign in winning style.
Six points up and frustrating Wexford in most sectors of the field, it was merely a case on driving on home. As turning points go the sight of Conor Whelan limping off injured certainly didn’t auger well, the Kinvara forward helping fill that void left by Canning with three points from play already, readily in the hunt for more.
Within another couple of minutes Wexford closed the gap to three, Conor McDonald pouncing for the goal that until then had eluded him, and that changed everything.
As time closed out, Whelan’s absence was clearly missed and even if Galway had themselves to blame for allowing Wexford to equalise at the death it was a remind …
- April 19, 2022
