Kilkenny have all the energy and desire as Cork fall flat

Hunger makes the difference after all...

Kilkenny return to the roll of honour in senior camogie after an impressive win yesterday over Cork. The 20,037 on hand in Jones’s Road saw a dour contest enlivened by a team in black and amber keen to win a first All-Ireland since 1994. Kilkenny’s determination and appetite made all the difference as opponents Cork eventually were made to look like a team with plenty of miles on the clock.

The trace elements from the previous weekend were discernible yesterday in Croke Park as well. The team which had been there, knocking on the door, and the team which was holding the door closed; hunger versus experience; the new coming after the old.