‘Shrewd’ Galway will be hard to beat, predicts Liam Rushe

Liam Rushe has seen it: This Galway is different.

The Dublin hurler has faced the Connacht side time and again in league and championship since making his inter-county debut eight years ago and what he saw in Tullamore late last month, when his side fell 14 points short, was something of an eye-opener.

There were times, he said, when it seemed like Dublin were facing Waterford such was the volume of players withdrawn down the field and the loss of Cian O’Callaghan 40 minutes in that day only made the capital side’s job all the more difficult.