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4th September 2017
03:14pm BST

You just know they will, because they have the likes of Tadhg De Búrca, Austin Gleeson, Shane Bennett, Patrick Curran in their ranks.
These lads have their whole careers ahead of them, to bottle this hurt, to use it to their own benefit.
Conor Gleeson was missing on Sunday, but you can be guaranteed that they drew everything out of themselves to do it for him.
Waterford's midfielder Jamie Barron is the best hurler in Ireland, but after post-game revelations that he hadn't trained in the last two weeks because of a bug, you'd have even more admiration for him.
Michael Duignan also spoke of Barron's pre-game struggles on The Sunday Game.
https://twitter.com/ShaneSaint/status/904469530658967552
To be out of action for ten days, to be against the head, to give that performance, it just tells you everything about him.
Barron ran himself into bloody oblivion on Sunday, with the ball, without the ball, he did it all.
Eventually, he had to come off, and maybe the missed trainings, the sickness, told, but for the 66 minutes he graced the hallowed turf, he did it with gusto, with fervour, with pride and with bravery.
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