Kilkenny bravehearts put their hands up

Kilkenny 0-20 Tipperary 1-14

They didn’t succeed but what an effort they made, and what an effort it took to repel the would-be assassins!

Nowlan Park was a steaming teeming cauldron on Saturday, a sellout crowd of just short of 24,000 who had come to see their hurling gladiators engaged in a fight to the death. The home side had the bulk of the support, the roof almost lifting from the various stands when it was announced that ‘there is one addition to the Kilkenny panel.....’ and that was as far as the announcer got.