Galway 1-24 Kilkenny 3-17
Wired. Into the 75th minute now and Conor Cooney is standing over the ball eyeing up the promenade-side posts. The game is deadlocked and on the sideline, Henry Shefflin and Brian Cody stand and watch. The atmosphere is off the radar. Forget about the Salthill breeze. This was an old-fashioned hurling tempest.
“Yeah it was very difficult,” said Shefflin, who knows a thing of two about sharp-shooting. “And when Colm [Lyons, the referee] went back to him I wondered was he going to take the free off him again like two weeks ago. And in general play, Conor probably didn’t have his best day but isn’t it brilliant having that leadership and to be able to stand over that free and strike it over the bar. I was delighted for him. He has done it over the years for St Thomas’s and Galway and that is what we are talking about; lads stepping up at the right time. It was a bril …
- May 2, 2022
