It could be worse for Kilkenny - They might have won

Firstly and most obviously, it was nothing less than they deserved or the occasion demanded. Fifty-eight years of hurt and all that. Secondly, a pitch invasion would have provided the neatest tailpiece possible to Kilkenny’s season, a brief campaign that finished the way it started.
For so many years they ruined the joy of others, time after time, coldly and unapologetically, a posse of professional hitmen who took unostentatious pride in their work and knew no other form of existence. Now here they were, for the second time in a month, victims of another county’s delirium, the butt of someone else’s punchline.