Michael Fennelly believes Ballyhale Shamrocks will benefit from the break following their shock Kilkenny SHC defeat yesterday.

The reigning All-Ireland club champions suffered a 2-13 to 2-15 semi-final defeat to O'Loughlin Gaels at Nowlan Park and, speaking to Newstalk, the 30-year-old admitted: "It is hard to keep the hunger and appetite there.

"We had a few injuries during the whole year after the All-Ireland. A lot of us are over 30 at this stage so there's a lot of miles on the clock, unfortunately. O'Loughlins were the better team on the day to be fair.

"We had a few sloppy passes and parts to our game that we don't normally do so when you make those mistakes, you pay and O'Loughlins got the one or two chances and they put them away."

The All-Ireland final 'man-of-the-match' concluded: "Rest is important. To get that hunger back again. But it's massively disappointing.

"You don't get too many chances to come to the semi-final stage and to lose by a couple of points, you need to win these but mentally and physically, we could do with a break for a while to freshen things up - and refresh the body, hopefully."

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