Wily Walsh says hurt was the motivation

GATHERING his hurleys in the Kilkenny dressing room after his sixth All-Ireland final triumph, Tommy Walsh was offered a helping hand.

But he was having none of it. “I’ll bring them out myself,” he said to the backroom member from his spot in the corner stationed alongside Brian Hogan.

It seemed an appropriate gesture from one of just several Kilkenny stand-out performers that he was still prepared to do his own bit long after the final whistle had blown.