Cats will bounce back

KILKENNY secretary Ned Quinn has backed Brian Cody’s side to bounce back from Sunday’s Allianz League final defeat to Dublin and be a force in the championship.

The manner of the Croke Park defeat has many penning obituaries for Cody’s men but Quinn last night insisted that hurling in the county remains in good health despite this setback.

The GAA chief, one of the driving forces behind the revamp of Kilkenny hurling after a fallow spell in the nineties, revealed that ‘we never lost sight of the future’ despite the tremendous senior success of the last decade.