Pulsating finish, right result

Kilkenny 3-22 Galway 5-16

You could write a book in attempting to describe all that happened in Tullamore yesterday in this mesmerising Leinster SHC semi-final. Or we could just describe the denouement, the final two acts of the game, the two points scored in the last 30 seconds of added time.

First, with Galway having overturned a 10-point Kilkenny lead to tie the game through a Joe Canning penalty in the first minute of injury-time, there was Henry Shefflin taking a pass wide on the left, soloing up along the sideline before shooting off his ‘weaker’ left, on the run, from just outside the 20m line — straight between the posts. A point worthy of winning any game, a point surely to win this one and thus did the Kilkenny-striped thousands in the 12,548 shirt-sleeved attendance celebrate.