Paddy Deegan: U21 loss to Westmeath taught us a 'lot of lessons'

LESSONS LEARNED: Paddy Deegan during the Kilkenny GAA Pre All-Ireland Final press event at Langton House Hotel in Kilkenny. Pic: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

“The captain of the team just walked down there,” notes Brian Cody about Paddy Deegan as the manager is asked about a seemingly unlikely U21 Kilkenny team providing three of the probable team to face Limerick this Sunday.

The year was 2016, the month May, the venue Mullingar’s Cusack Park as Westmeath pulled off a shock two-point win over Eddie Brennan’s side in their Leinster quarter-final.