Kilmichael revel in victory

IT hasn’t been an especially long journey for Kilmichael, but that is what makes it all the more remarkable.

There was no hurling at all in the club until 1999, when an U12 team was entered, and with the growing number of underage teams providing a conveyor belt, a junior B team first represented the club in 2007.

In just their third year of existence, 2009, they reached a county semi-final, only to lose by three goals to eventual champions Ballinacurra, and few would have predicted that margin would be turned on its head in Saturday night’s county final at Páirc Uí Rinn.