The only time we tried to pull a fast one over Kilkenny, Ed Sheeran was to blame. It was 2018, the first year of the round-robin and the first year we were allowed to host Leinster Championship matches in Pearse Stadium. In all honesty, the Leinster Championship didn’t mean an awful lot to me. Around a quarter of all Galway v Kilkenny championship matches in history have happened since 2009. I’d have happily taken a beating in the Leinster final if we could have kept our shock win until September.

Source: The Irish Times June 03, 2022 13:02 UTC