Cool Cats survive the Deise barrage

Kilkenny 3-12 Waterford 0-18

And, they just about managed it, thanks in the main to their goal-scoring expertise in the first half and some heroic defending in the last 15 minutes.

That was when Waterford, kept in contention all through by the brilliance of Paul Flynn's free-taking (and Kilkenny squandermania), mounted a series of attacks in search of the goal which would have, at the very least, offered them redemption. But, sadly, the scoring threat which won them the Munster championship was severely blunted on this occasion.