Ailish O’Reilly: ‘All the talk about Kilkenny suited us down to the ground’

Ailish O’Reilly was as forceful in her words as she had been in her actions on the field.

The 25-year-old Galway forward tormented Collette Dormer, Kellyann Doyle and, indeed, the entire Kilkenny defence during a first half where she twice found the net and was desperately unlucky not to grab a hat-trick as her groundstroke in injury-time was well kept out by ‘keeper Emma Kavanagh.