Henry Shefflin can never see a team again winning an All-Ireland SHC title operating a sweeper system.

Kilkenny are built on their defence

He had seen his brother Mark dislocate his shoulder in the first half but nothing was going to distract Paul Schutte from getting the job done on Saturday.

All the nonsense about Dublin hurling and Dublin hurlers over the years, talk of them not being ‘natural’ hurlers, of being ‘made’ hurlers, of Dublin not being a traditional hurling county – there’s something people should know.

I WAS down around the square in Thurles yesterday, and five or six Dublin lads passed me talking loudly.