South Kilkenny club are bidding to reach a first county SHC final for 81 years when they lock horns with Thomastown
senior hurling final in 81 years – having dominated the county’s football championship for much of the last eight seasons.
“There would be a huge crossover,” explains club secretary Tom Duggan. “Most of the lads play both sports. We just ran out of road this year in the football, I suppose time caught up with us, but we had a fantastic run with basically the same bunch of players.” “But they went back out the gate with the tails between their legs because they got the shock of their lives, they didn’t expect us to be any good.”
They won the Kilkenny intermediate hurling title in 2014, progressing to win the provincial title at the grade that year too. The following season they advanced to the semi-finals of the Kilkenny senior championship but have not returned to that stage again, until now.“But we’re in the last four now and we are not just clapping ourselves on the back, we want to win this game, but we know it won’t be easy.
“I don’t know of anybody around now that can remember that far back,” adds Duggan, who has two sons on the panel – Ian, who is joint captain along with George O’Connor, and Conor.
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