Eoin Cody and Eoin Murphy provide the star billing as Cats excel in the endgame yet again
It hadn’t looked that way at half-time. Although the margin was just five points, 0-15 to 0-10, Kilkenny had a grip on the match that Clare’s flailing efforts looked unlikely to prise loose.
John Conlon was also cleared to play, a big addition to last year when the influential centre back was badly missed. Richie Reid was deployed as the spare defender, “hitting balls for fun,” according to Lohan afterwards. they comfortably coped with what their opponents could devise. Shane O’Donnell brought much of last year’s form to the match but he too was finding it hard going, trying to get things moving up front.
Kilkenny’s Tom Phelan in action against John Conlon of Clare during the All-Ireland hurling semi-final at Croke Park. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho With Galvin back on board, they went man-to-man with Kilkenny and suddenly the crowd of 48,360 had a match.
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