Fortress Parnell . . hardly . . but a great evening nonetheless
Leinster U21 Hurling Final. Kilkenny hit us for 1-3 early, we missed easy frees and there was a sense of inevitability in the crowd, not the blind partisanship some of would have hoped for. We missed lots more frees, maybe 7 or 8 very scorable, and only lost by 4, 2-20 to 1-19, we got to within 3 but gave up a really crap goal, but the Cats always looked crisper in their catching and striking and it would be crass to claim we were the better team.
Magnificent evening, hurling is really catching the imagination in Dublin, we even had a dual star on show in the excellent Rory O'Carroll, just to prove it can be done, and the now usual hundreds of young fellas with their camáns in tow. Like CIE, we're not there yet, but . .
