Galway too powerful for Wexford in Leinster hurling final

Galway beat Wexford 0-29 to 1-17 to become Leinster hurling champions at Croke Park.

The win is the second time the Tribesmen have become champions of the eastern province since switching to Leinster in 2009. Their first win came back in 2010 with final defeats in 2013, 2015 and 2016.

Wexford trailed the All-Ireland favourites by three points at the break, but had a chance to level the tie through a penalty for Conor McDonald; however, McDonald's penalty miss saw Galway capitalise as they pushed on to finish nine-point winners at the finish.

Conor Cooney contributed eight points for Michael Donoghue's Galway as he played all sorts of games with the Wexford defence. 

Joe Canning also had a fine afternoon for the Tribesmen as he struck over ten placed balls. 

Joseph Cooney was the third Galway player to shine as the Tribesmen used power and speed to overcome Davy Fitzgerald's Wexford outfit.

Wexford were right in the tie in the opening 30 minutes with Conor McDonald scoring two fine points and Diarmuid O’Keeffe scoring a splendid point from an acute angle.

Cooney scored four points in the first half as Galway did enough to maintain control of the tie, with his fourth point the first in a run of four scores for Galway as they went into the break leading 0-14 to 0-11.

Wexford could have been level on 40 minutes but McDonald’s penalty was saved low and to his left by keeper Colm Callanan.

 Galway responded by blitzing their rivals, smashing home seven points in succession with Niall Burke, Conor Cooney and Joseph Cooney all notching scores.

An O’Keeffe goal briefly looked like it might rally Wexford as they struck 1-01, but five more Galway points killed off the Yellowbellies' comeback.  

Niall Burke was the most prominent Galway player late on as Galway underlined whey they are most people’s favourites to become champions of the nation later this summer.

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