Kilkenny retirement allows Walter Walsh to fulfil dream of lining out for Leinster rugby

Walsh also believes his former side has "a great chance" of winning the All-Ireland senior hurling title.

LEINSTER DREAM: Former Kilkenny hurler Walter Walsh recently lined out for the Leinster Rugby Juniors against the Defence Forces. Pic: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

This wasn't exactly how Walter Walsh envisaged retirement panning out, swapping the black and amber of Kilkenny for the blue of Leinster Rugby.

For the guts of 15 years he was Eoin Murphy's bus partner on Kilkenny team journeys to here, there and everywhere.