Gracious Walsh pays tribute to the victors

KILKENNY don’t usually lose tight games. Not in recent times anyway.

And for a while in the second half of yesterday’s All-Ireland U21 final, as they turned a two-point interval deficit into an equivalent lead, another All-Ireland success seemed inevitable.

That was to reckon without a wonderfully spirited Clare bunch though and the defeated manager Michael Walsh was quick to praise the winners. He also spoke highly of his own bunch of players.