Cunningham: We upped our work-rate

“Semi-finals are for winning.”

Anthony Cunningham couldn’t have put it more succinctly about a Galway performance yesterday which will hardly have Kilkenny and Tipperary in a cold sweat.

But it was all about the result, nothing else. After a lengthy lay-off from the Leinster final, there was bound to be rust and a few psychological hang-ups, perhaps.