Bonnar: Galway clash ‘like an All-Ireland’ for Carlow

No need for a telescope when Colm Bonnar scans a metaphorical eye over the hurling landscape in Carlow.

The heartland is an afterthought at the thin end of a disappearing wedge of county between the borders of Kilkenny and Wexford. Draw a line across the map from the Rower-Inistioge club to Rathnure and your pencil would run through St Mullins, Carlow’s most successful hurling club.