Emotions run high as Tribe end agonising 29-year wait

Another September. Dreams fled away, as Thomas Kinsella used to say.

Not in Ahascragh or Gort or similar stations in the west, however. Nobody blinking awake in the hurling outposts of Galway this morning would agree with Kinsella’s cold evaluation of dreams in the lunar light of dawn.

Yesterday Galway shrugged off 29 years of disappointment to motor past Waterford for the All-Ireland senior hurling title on an emotional day in Croke Park.