This isn’t the September road, it’s Kilkenny’s road

When we won Munster with Clare in 1995, the county went bananas.

Sat, 08 Aug, 2015 - 01:00

Two‑time All‑Ireland–winning captain and former Dublin and Clare manager, Anthony Daly, is a much-respected pundit and columnist as well as ringmaster in chief on the hugely-popular Dalo’s Hurling Show.

Biddy Early had been slain. Every curse and piseóg that had been heaped on top of us for decades was exorcised and banished from the Banner. There was a full-time fiesta around the county. You’d think that we had won the World Cup and Champions League combined and that there was nothing ever to be won again.

We had been so starved of Munster success, we’d been devastated by so many harrowing big day defeats that it would have been easy for us to settle for what we had, which was still huge in our eyes. But we didn’t. We knew there was still a huge prize there for us if we really went after it. And we did.