Kilkenny finally get better of Wexford

When James McGrath sounded the final whistle after five minutes of injury time a majority of spectators in the 9,793 attendance rose to their feet in celebration.

Yes indeed: Kilkenny had beaten Wexford at last. Or, rather, Kilkenny had beaten Davy Fitz’s Wexford after suffering three successive defeats against them. It may have only been a league game but these days the feline folk take whatever they get and are suitably grateful for it.

The better team — slightly the better team — won. That was the verdict of one of the managers afterwards, and not the manager in the black and amber corner.