Kilkenny collect historic six-in-row

TROUBLES off the field perhaps, but All-Ireland champions Kilkenny once again showed why they are so formidable on it, as they swept aside Wexford's dogged challenge in yesterday's Guinness Leinster SHC.

Not a solitary word was uttered about the "troubles" on a day which team manager Brian Cody described as "a particularly famous one for our county."

DJ Carey, captaining his county for the first time in a provincial final, said that his club colleague Charlie Carter had been captain from day one this year.