It is within our grasp to win an allireland cunningham

By Cian O’Connell

ULTIMATELY it ended in a familiar feeling of bitter Galwegian disappointment. For a while it was a September afternoon carrying promise. Galway led at the interval, confidence was increasing, but then Kilkenny seized the initiative.
“We are very, very disappointed,” Galway manager Anthony Cunningham quietly said when speaking in the post match press conference.
“It is a difficult one in that we were in a very good strong position at half time and just came up short in the second half in two or three different areas and were punished by an outstanding team really and a team that has massive hurling and massive hurlers. Our congratulations to Kilkenny.
“They punished us there in the second half. But huge disappointment and no fault to anybody really. We have to be hugely proud of Galway and this team and the effort we got all year. That is why it is so hard.”