Agony of defeat still fresh for Shanahan

ONE week on and Dan Shanahan is still feeling the pain of losing to Cork in the All-Ireland hurling semi-final.

And it doesn’t get any easier when he looks at the champions contesting their fourth consecutive decider and thinks of what it might be like for the Waterford hurlers even to get to one final!

“It still hasn’t sunk in. It was the toughest defeat I ever had to be honest. We played well enough to get the draw, but it wasn’t our day. Any previous time we lost in Cork it was to a better team. The Tipp victory was great for us. It put us in the right frame of mind going in against Cork. But we got no luck.