Piarsaigh’s hearts now set on the All-Ireland

Last week we spoke to former National Director of Hurling, Paudie Butler, and he dismissed traditional notions of winter hurling.

Heavy pitches and poor conditions were a thing of the past, he argued, a point endorsed by the quality of hurling on offer deep into winter.

Butler might have been speaking of Sixmilebridge and Na Piarsaigh in Cusack Park yesterday.