Historic day as Galway get to enjoy home comforts

For Pearse Stadium and Cusack Park, the wait is over.

It’s been 25 years since the Munster hurling championship last visited Ennis, and with Cusack Park having undergone a €2.3m facelift in the second half of 2015, the venue should prove more than capable of dealing with the 15,000-plus supporters expected through the turnstiles Sunday afternoon.

Further up the west coast, there’s history to be made. When Fergal Horgan rolls in the sliotar between Johnny Coen, David Burke and whoever Brian Cody throws in midfield for Kilkenny, he’ll get underway the first Leinster SHC fixture to be played on Galway soil.