O'Loughlin Gaels forward Owen Wall has claimed 'the experience of last year' has been key to the club's winning fortunes over the past year.
The city club won last year's St Canice's Credit Union Senior Hurling Championship as well the Leinster title but ultimately fell short to St Thomas' in the All-Ireland Senior Club Final.
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However, the O'Loughlins clubman and his team-mates are determined to continue their winning ways after an unbeaten start to the senior hurling league and a date with rivals Dicksboro in the championship quarter-final this Sunday.
"The experience of last year has helped us all come on," Wall told the Kilkenny People Sport Podcast.
"Fionan Mackessy is obviously a huge bonus, we lost Cian Loy as well who's a big loss but I think it's just listening to the management team, keeping ourselves grounded and just learning from last year that we need to start putting teams to bed because you can't leave teams dangling in it."
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