Wexford show a hint of summer in beating Galway

Wexford 1-23 Galway 0-23: Well, the revolution isn’t just being televised. It’s being snapped and shared and streamed so much by the people of Wexford, that every advance being made by the county hurlers is being captured for posterity as it’s happening.

So is the immediate aftermath. Davy Fitzgerald’s side were a goal better than Galway on Saturday afternoon, which qualified them for the NHL semi-final on Saturday against Kilkenny. After the game, we had the now customary post-game pitch invasion, with Fitzgerald besieged by south-easterners of all ages looking for photographs, as well as autographs on every surface imaginable. Was that last man in the thicket of people really looking to get a whistle signed?

No wonder Fitzgerald was praising the support afterwards: “You can see what it means to the people. They love their hurling down here. And it’s a great place to come to, to be at a game.”