Old friends are best: Prunty and Abbeyside aiming to get one over on Ballygunner in decider 

The sides face off in the Waterford showpiece this weekend. 

Waterford's Conor Prunty in full flow against Cork earlier this year. Pic: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Pals, team-mates, work colleagues. Conor Prunty and Peter Hogan would regularly chew the cud but in Sanofi base in Waterford but this week there was barely a word.

Understandably so, of course, as they are rivals in Sunday’s county senior hurling final. “We’re very good friends,” says project engineer Prunty. “It was a smile on Monday and that was it.” The difference between Abbeyside’s Prunty and Ballygunner’s Hogan couldn’t be starker. Both may be 27 but as Prunty aims for his first senior county medal, his buddy is aiming for his 11th consecutive.