Dessie Hutchinson hopes that Ballygunner’s All-Ireland club SHC success can have a knock-on effect for Waterford’s senior hurlers to go the distance this year.

The Gunners landed the biggest prize in club hurling last Saturday after a late Harry Ruddle goal denied Ballyhale Shamrocks a third Tommy Moore Cup in-a-row at Croke Park.

Speaking to RTÉ 2fm’s Game On this week, Hutchinson said he hopes that the victory can give the entire county a buzz as the Deise aim for Liam McCarthy success later this year.

"That’s the hope, that we’d bring back that buzz and belief that we’re good enough to win an inter-county All-Ireland," he said.

"Sometimes there has been a bit of fear going into it you can’t get over the line because it hasn’t been done in so long

"Hopefully it gives everyone a buzz. For us [the Ballygunner contingent] we have a spring in our step. It’s absolutely brilliant.

"We are not far away. We have lost three games in the last two championships and they have all been to Limerick. We have lost a Munster final, an All-Ireland semi-final and an All-Ireland final to Limerick

"We’re not that far away. We all know Limerick are a great team, but we’re hoping to be the ones to catch them."

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