Westmeaths under 21 defeat of Kilkenny: ‘You could sense something was going to happen’

A flip chart in the Westmeath U-21 hurling dressing-room on Wednesday evening contained a page with a list of half a dozen or so directions for the game.

If Adrian Moran’s side were to overcome the might of Kilkenny, the management explained, then each of them would have to be embraced assiduously.

There at the top of the list were the words ‘workrate’.