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2nd April 2017
06:08pm BST

Allianz Hurling League Division One quarter-finals Kilkenny 0-19 Wexford 2-18 Cork 1-18 Limerick 1-20 Galway 2-22 Waterford 2-19 Offaly 3-13 Tipperary 4-28But Sunday was about this game. One game. A game that would prove that they can mix it and one which probably gave up the ghost on the manager who insisted beforehand that he just wanted his team to be competitive against the might of Kilkenny. Well, Wexford were competitive and more so and it was all summed up brilliantly by the county's official Twitter account.
We didn't get your common or garden recounts of what was going on in Kilkenny or just a point by point update. No, we got passion. We got emotion. Frustration, elation and all the twists and turns of a true Gael totally engrossed in one game of hurling like it was the only thing that mattered in this world today.
We got real, honest musings. We got the GAA and all that is good about it in 140 character dosages.
From the very start, Kilkenny stopper Eoin Murphy was producing all sorts of miraculous shapes across his goal to deny Wexford.
It was an aspect of the game which the visiting county's social media user failed to believe and then accept.
https://twitter.com/OfficialWexGAA/status/848550870048534529
They could've dealt with one.
https://twitter.com/OfficialWexGAA/status/848556496061386752
Two might've been negotiable.
https://twitter.com/OfficialWexGAA/status/848568867790225410
They're proud of Lee Chin in Wexford.
His physique.
https://twitter.com/OfficialWexGAA/status/848557829157945344
His skill.
https://twitter.com/OfficialWexGAA/status/848570703507009539
The updates would drift freely in and out of English and as Gaeilge.
https://twitter.com/OfficialWexGAA/status/848553434781560832
https://twitter.com/OfficialWexGAA/status/848560127506604033
The descriptions are much more evocative than the norm.
https://twitter.com/OfficialWexGAA/status/848564647343120384
https://twitter.com/OfficialWexGAA/status/848556028149075968
The nerves are dangling from every tweet.
https://twitter.com/OfficialWexGAA/status/848566635099291652
The penalty drama was palpable.
https://twitter.com/OfficialWexGAA/status/848566835717038081
Then it just became a true GAA fan totally lost in the moment.
https://twitter.com/OfficialWexGAA/status/848567005695406080
Thankfully those moments were lit up with bouts of Conor McDonald magic.
https://twitter.com/OfficialWexGAA/status/848567655271452674
Even the biased opinions are better than nothing. This guy was feeling it.
https://twitter.com/OfficialWexGAA/status/848569523909349377
They didn't abdicate responsibility though...
https://twitter.com/OfficialWexGAA/status/848568396484673536
Before long, players were elevated to almost myth-like heroes.
https://twitter.com/OfficialWexGAA/status/848569977020055556
Dare we dream?
https://twitter.com/OfficialWexGAA/status/848572056434352128
Absorbed.
https://twitter.com/OfficialWexGAA/status/848573016829296640
Clarification came later.
https://twitter.com/OfficialWexGAA/status/848573142377406465
The size of the fight in the dog.
https://twitter.com/OfficialWexGAA/status/848573463266832384
Brilliant stuff, folks. This was gripping and damn well fitting of another monumental Fitzgerald achievement.Explore more on these topics: