Fixing defensive frailties should be Galway priority 

he challenge for Shefflin’s team going into Saturday’s All-Ireland quarter-final is not overcoming any mental scars from how the Leinster final concluded, for former Hurler Cathal Moore

QUICK FIX NEEDED: Kilkenny's Eoin Cody scores a point despite Daithi Burke of Galway. Pic: ©INPHO/Tom Maher

Galway’s Leinster final problems were not Cillian Buckley’s goal, Pádraic Mannion’s kick, or the failure of Gearóid McInerney and Joseph Cooney to clear their lines during that nightmare closing act. No, all of the above mere surface burns. Painful and not at all pretty to look at, but nothing that ran skin deep.

Galway’s Leinster final problems had presented themselves well before the dramatic sixth and final minute of second-half injury-time.