Kilkenny SHC round-up: Herry Shefflin's Ballyhale Shamrocks dethrone Thomastown

The second game on Sunday pipped hot favourites O’Loughlin Gaels against Clara and it turned into a real cracker.

Eoin Cody of Ballyhale Shamrocks in action. Pic: ©INPHO/James Lawlor.

It was a dramatic weekend of action in the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship with Thomastown’s reign as county champions coming to an end.

The South Kilkenny outfit were defeated by an on-fire Ballyhale Shamrocks in the first of two games at UPMC Nowlan Park on Sunday afternoon.