Better-organised Leinster ease past Connacht

Leinster 1-23 Connacht 0-17

PRESUMABLY, new Galway manager Ger Loughnane would have shared the general feeling in Pearse Stadium on Saturday evening that the Leinster hurlers could have been given a sterner test in the M Donnelly Interprovincial hurling final.

Watching from the dug-out, he and his fellow selectors witnessed a game that wasn’t a contest in the truest sense of the word.