Heady days for Carlow hurling after Meath defeat

CARLOW’s victory over Meath last weekend didn’t cause the reverberations it should have done.

Maybe it was due to the fact that the Royals had problems of their own or weren’t a recognised hurling county. However, if Carlow manage to upend Laois tomorrow, people will definitely sit up and take notice.

Laois, after all, spent their spring surprising Galway and running the likes of Waterford and Limerick fairly close in the NHL. Carlow found the going tough among the elite of the second division, but put in good accounts of themselves against the likes of Antrim, Kerry and Derry.