‘We’ll give this a good rattle’

Looking at the scoreline you’d assume a cakewalk. Ballygunner ran up 4-20 when beating Passage last Sunday, collecting a third Waterford senior hurling title in a row.

For Gunners goalkeeper Stephen O’Keeffe, however, there was no relaxing until the final whistle or thereabouts.

“We had to battle for it. After three years ago, and what happened that time, I certainly wasn’t taking it for granted at any stage. When we got to injury time fair enough, I finally breathed a sigh of relief and felt it was over.”