Ballyragget bag title after titanic Charleville tussle
“Maybe we’ve played better,” said delighted St Patrick’s manager Maurice Aylward, a man who led his native Ballyhale Shamrocks to All-Ireland glory at senior level. “But we haven’t played better opposition. That was a very good Charleville team; they were hurlers, they were strong, they had ball-winners and they knew what to do with the ball when they won it. They did everything we expected and we did everything we could to try to stop them. In the end it was just enough. It must have been a terrific game to watch with great hurling and great scores. A typical Kilkenny Cork game.”
And indeed it was terrific to watch with two fit and skilful sides, utterly committed and giving their all without a foul stroke pulled.
