First-half shooting failure cost us title, says Browne

“KILKENNY took their chances, we didn’t and that is the principal reason why the McCarthy Cup is going home to the Marble City today.”

The pained words of Cork captain Alan Browne summed up 70 minutes of hurling on All-Ireland final day in a cold Croke Park corridor. That very reasoning alone made defeat all the more bitter a pill to swallow.

And how he, and his team felt it.