Enda McEvoy: It was 2006-09 all over again and the patented Kilkenny double-barrelled blast 

They weren’t just any two oul’ goals either. These were the kind of goals that could have been scored by DJ or Larkin or Richie Power, the kind of goals to make Kilkenny fans reach for the remote again before they headed to bed

TJ Reid shoots to score Kilkenny's second goal past Éanna Murphy of Galway. Picture: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

Apt that in a year where we learned to appreciate some of the simple things in life again, Kilkenny should end up visibly grateful to be Leinster champions once more.

Of the myriad provincial titles they’ve collected in the Cody era this was by some distance the most satisfying. An rud is (recently) annamh etc. The truisms emphasised by the outcome? Many and varied.