Formidable Waterford champions cast a big shadow over the club hurling championship
Loughmore-Castleiney’s John McGrath in action against Toomevara's Liam Ryan during the Tipperary county final. The Tipperary champions now face Waterford's Ballygunner. Photograph: James Crombie/InphoSlaughtneil haven’t won Ulster for three years now although they have contested the past two finals and lost narrowly. It’s a claustrophobic championship.
Ballygunner cast a long shadow even at this stage of the championship with the teams that most recently beat them in All-Ireland semi-finals – the past two champions, St Thomas and Ballyhale Shamrocks – no longer in the championship. The quarter-final win over Doon was hard assembled and swung on a brilliant save by the invaluable Stephen O’Keeffe but some typically quicksilver scoring from Dessie Hutchinson and Patrick Fitzgerald pushed the score beyond the new Limerick champions.
The Sligo champions, back in the province after retaining their title, have some decent performers. Niall Murphy is the attacking inspiration and now retired county veteran Keelan Cawley brings further quality. They have yet to win a Connacht match and are up against it against the back-to-back Mayo champions, who have impressed so far.Pearses staged a first-half blitz in Tuam from which hot favourites Corofin never fully recovered.
The match that became a major problem for Leinster Council on account of Castletown’s dual commitments, finally gets off the blocks. In the to-ing and fro-ing, sight has been lost of how impressive Loman’s were in whacking Dunshaughlin in the quarter-final. Castletown are battlers, though, surviving an injury to joint-captain Liam Coleman, the sending-off of Jonathan Bealin, foul conditions and Gusserane to land the county title.
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