McMahon: One that got away from us

SEAN McMAHON was facing up to the hard reality of sport, not an easy to thing after captaining his team with distinction once more and seeing them go under in the All-Ireland SHC semi-final for the second year in a row.

“You could say it was similar to losing last year. We had the chances to win today but it really didn’t work for us. Last year’s game was tighter and there weren’t as many scores today. With a bit of luck we could have won both of them,’’ he said.

Expressing disappointment with the circumstances in which Kilkenny gained their second goal from a throw-in at the edge of the square, McMahon felt that at the time Clare were good enough to recover.