Sarsfields player-manager Cathal Murray's 20-year wait for a second Galway SHC medal finally ended yesterday.

The 38-year-old corner back missed the New Inn/Bullaun club's last Tom Callanan Cup success through injury in 1997, but did pick up a winners' medal two years earlier.

"It's nearly 20 years since I won my last county medal. It's a long time to be hanging around," he is quoted in the Irish Daily Mirror.

"Myself and Ronan Quinn have been here, I think he was there in '97. I've been here since '95.

"The two of us are good friends and we've always said there was a crop of players coming through. We thought that if we held on long enough, these players would come through."

Beaten Craughwell manager Stephen Glennon lamented: "We put in a massive effort in the last three years, so this is heart-breaking. It has been building up to this. It's a setback, that is the way we have to look at it. Hopefully next years the lads can regroup."

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