Powerful Galway do their best Kilkenny impression

Leinster SHC Final Galway 0-29 Wexford 1-17 

It was in the run-up to facing Davy Fitzgerald’s Clare in last year’s All-Ireland quarter- finals that Ger Loughnane’s ‘gutless’ label was infamously attached to Galway.

Fitzgerald would come to realise the error of that statement in Thurles and, 12 months on, he got a strong sense again of the spirit that resides in these Galway players.