Brian Cody has paid a glowing tribute to his recently-retired gladiator Tommy Walsh.

Under Cody's watch, Walsh helped himself to nine All-Irelands, nine successive All Stars, nine Leinster championships and seven national hurling league crowns.

"Tommy Walsh epitomises hurling. I always felt that," Cody states in The Kilkenny People. "He is what hurling is meant to be, especially Kilkenny hurling and the way you would want the game to be.

"He was outstanding. He had everything and he produced it every day he went out. He adorned the jersey completely.

"There is just so much about him. He was completely modest and utterly confident on the field and completely composed on the ball.

"His ability to win ball in the sky was amazing, phenomenal. As a leader he was unsurpassed.

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