Back to basics works for merciless Kilkenny

Kilkenny 3-22 Galway 3-11

A tour-de-force also by their talisman Henry Shefflin, now gone out on his own with nine medals won on the field of play. On this evidence, who’s to say it won’t become 10?

Such a different game to the drawn match just three weeks ago, in so many aspects. On that occasion Kilkenny did what Kilkenny under Brian Cody just don’t do: they played a game dictated by the opposition.