Keeping Kilkenny in power

THE Powers of Carrickshock are no strangers to All-Ireland finals but Sunday’s events in Croke Park will be extra special even by their dizzyingly high standards.

Come lunchtime, John Power will run out with the rest of the Kilkenny minors before older brother Richie will do likewise with Brian Cody’s five-in-a-row chasers just after 3pm.

Lucky for their father, Richie Power Sr, then that he is not the nervous type and that he has his own All-Ireland final appearances and victories in the 1980s to fall back on should the excitement threaten to become too much.