The recently-retired Kilkenny greats were always going to be hard to replace, but the Cats are getting there, according to Paul Murphy.

It was business as usual from the Black & Amber on Sunday as they landed their 70th Leinster SHC title. Murphy is happy with the tenacity being shown by their new-look outfit:

"The rest of the lads who are there are very aware that those lads are gone. We know from the last few years how intense it was and, if it is anyway off, the lads make it their business to raise it to that level," the Danesfort clubman says in The Irish Independent.

"Look, Brian [Cody] has been at it so long that when it is going right he knows what it looks like. It has been hard to get it back to that level but we have got it to that level. And we are happy that training is going the way we want it to be going.

"You are losing Tommy Walsh, Brian Hogan, JJ Delaney and these lads but they had to start somewhere as well and learn the tricks of the trade too. You still have Jackie Tyrrell, Eoin Larkin, Richie Power and Mick Fennelly and these lads.

"So we do have a lot of lads who are there and know what it is like and know what the standard should be."

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