'The game is everything in South Kilkenny' - Carrickshock and David Franks are ready for the Intermediate All-Ireland club hurling final

Suddenly the Carrickshock supporters took to singing.

David Franks looked around, delighted but feeling a sort of vertigo too. The previous 13 months… Dickens’ famous line about ‘the best of times, the worst of times’ hardly covered it.

Kilkenny’s Carrickshock meet Galway’s Ahascragh/Fohenagh in today’s Intermediate All-Ireland club hurling final. The going has been tough and uphill. “That moment, the sing-song, made it all worthwhile,” he says. “Just to hear everyone in great form, after all that had happened, all the hurt.”