Shamrocks strike a purple patch

Ballyhale Shamrocks 3-20 St. Martin’s 3-8

Even in Kilkenny, however, the most fanatical of all hurling counties, due deference is paid to the biggest day on the gaelic football calendar, thus the early start to this double-header in Nowlan Park.

Did those couple of thousand who answered the call get their money’s worth? Not in this game, although in fairness, the quality of the hurling was top-class at times, from the Shamrocks particularly.