Wexford escape only as significant as they make it

Relegation for Wexford would have been the story of the season. That they survived doesn’t mean it isn’t a chapter worth contemplating

SURVIVAL: Conor McDonald of Wexford celebrates after his side's victory in the Leinster SHC Round 5 match against Kilkenny at Chadwicks Wexford Park. Pic: Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile

The All-Ireland hurling championship waits for no man, woman or child. Once a lumbering locomotive that meandered through the Irish summer, it has been reimagined as a bullet train that sweeps through the landscape in the blink of an eye.

That relentlessness saw Wexford’s great escape from the clutches of the Joe McDonagh Cup overtaken by events in Munster before tea time on Sunday. The defeat of Kilkenny two days ago was long flagged as their last stop.