’Genuineness’ key in savage battle, says proud Cody

Serious. Massive. Huge. There are words Brian Cody favours over others and yesterday he added genuineness to his lexicon to describe the efforts of his own team as well as Limerick.

Ranking the All-Ireland semi-final as one of the most difficult he had ever encountered as Kilkenny manager, he said: “It was as hard as you could get. I thought Limerick played outstanding, they threw everything at us and we were tested in every way.

“I suppose what shone through again was our absolute spirit to the end, competing manfully throughout the game. I thought our genuineness was superb, as was Limerick’s because they kept going.