What did you expect? Brian Cody and Henry Shefflin are not melodramatic people but for the last two decades they have lit many Irish summer afternoons with their shared genius for transcendent hurling days.
For all of those years, they also shared the black and amber colours of their home county. Now, on an unseasonable Sunday in Salthill, they squared off in opposition corners. It started off at a hundred miles an hour and broke all kinds of limits in speed, skill, emotion and excitement from that point. Inevitably, they were deadlocked after 73 minutes of riveting hurling and the injury-time had officially lapsed by the time Conor Cooney addressed the free that ultimately turned the day maroon.
Strange for the St Thomas’ man to be tasked with su …
- May 2, 2022
