Hurling matters

BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR

St. Canice’s Credit Union Senior Hurling LeagueChampionship 2023

Shamrocks

Ballyhale 2-14

Glenmore 1-20 e current holders of the Tom Walsh Cup were given a stark reminder that claiming a 6th successive County title won’t be easy, going down at home by 3 points to a very hungry looking Glenmore side. Despite top scoring with 1-10, veteran TJ Reid nished up on the losing side having returned to the club jersey along with Eoin Cody and Adrian Mullen. Interestingly, Adrian played much of the game at centre-half back and didn’t look out of place there! e wind was always going to be a factor and the home side opted to play against the wind in the opening period. Kilkenny netminder

Eoin Murphy was operating in the ‘6’ position and the Cats number one was in uential throughout the contest as he covered plenty of ground, snu ng out danger and setting up attacks.

It would be Eoin’s brother and fellow county-man Alan that got the scoreboard moving with an early point to give the visitors the lead. Liam Barron then took possession before giving a nice pass into TJ, who split the posts to level matters. e next two scores came from Eoin Murphy. e rst e ort was a booming free from his own ‘45 and the second one, a lovely strike from play from inside the Glenmore ‘65. Bob Aylward’s side were certainly using the strong wind to their advantage, but they were about to be caught with a sucker punch.

TJ got the sliotar in his hand and played a lovely pass across the pitch to his County Captain. Eoin Cody collected the pass and took his man on before unleashing a erce shot past Mikey Kirwan in the Glenmore goal for the rst major of the day in the 7th minute to give the Shamrocks the lead. e visitors responded well, and Alan Murphy drew the sides level