All about future, says Cats coach

KILKENNY minor hurling coach Richie Mulrooney is only too well aware that his side’s ambition of winning their 19th All-Ireland title will come under intense scrutiny when they line out against Galway in tomorrow’s final.

The Connacht side are relative newcomers to the minor grade in that they won their first All-Ireland in 1983 by which time Kilkenny had collected 12.

Over the next 25 years Galway have won one more title than Kilkenny (seven to six), and each county has deprived the other of the title on a number of occasions.