Maher ignites London

London 4-18 Wicklow 1-17

A year after claiming the Nicky Rackard Cup at HQ, Eamonn Phelan’s charges were crowned Christy Ring champions after crushing Wicklow on Saturday.

And Phelan never doubted the outcome: “I always believed we had good hurlers in London. The biggest thing was to get lads to work hard and believe they were good enough. We wanted them to believe that if they put the effort in, they got their due rewards. The thing was to get to Croke Park. We knew if we got here we had the players to win. We knew we had the pace, we knew the lads could deliver. It was just to get here.