Kilkenny hadn’t played a competitive match at Corrigan Park since since a famous shock defeat to Antrim All-Ireland semi-final defeat 80 years ago
In Marcus de Búrca’s history of the GAA, the significance of the date is made clear.
The visitors should have been prepared, as in the quarter-final, a last-minute goal by Noel Campbell had beaten Galway by the ‘of its time’ score of 7-0 to 6-2. “Kilkenny’s followers found the defeat hard to take and when the team returned home on Monday evening – having left on the first stage of the journey on Friday evening – they were accused of being drunk during the game.”
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