‘Best thing I’ve seen in my life’

“HAPPY are we all together,” sang Biddy Sheedy, manager Liam’s 85-yr-old mother, on the steps of the Old Stand to the assembled throng in Semple Stadium last evening.

“Happy are we one and all; May our lives be full of pleasure; May we rise and never fall.”

That was the theme of the evening in Thurles as a Garda-estimated 30,000+ crowd gathered to welcome home the triumphant team from Sunday’s All-Ireland final in Croke Park, a county en fete, a success-starved hurling stronghold back on top.