Fennelly: I feared I wasn’t going to make the cut

THIS season’s hurler of the year Michael Fennelly admits he had doubts about his inter-county career with Kilkenny just two years ago.

In TV3’s documentary Kilkenny’s Sweetest Success, to be broadcast on Friday week, the Ballyhale Shamrocks man talks about being disillusioned as a substitute.

“Back in 2009, after captaining Kilkenny, I was looking at my own career, wondering ‘have I got a future with Kilkenny?’” he reveals. “There’s only so much you can take on the bench because it’s all about playing.”