KILKENNY GOT their Leinster SHC off to a flying start when they hammered Antrim this weekend.
TJ Reid showed off his talent while scoring 1-5 during the 5-30 to 0-13 thumping.
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Watching on was Reid’s wife Niamh de Brun and their young daughter Harper and both were kitted out in their Cats jerseys.
Niamh took to Instagram to share a cute photo of the family as TJ beamed alongside his wife and daughter.
She captioned it: “‘Cos we’re the 3 best friends that anyone could have’. Sunny matchdays are the best.”
Niamh received plenty of love from fans in her comments as they admired the ‘cute picture’ and gorgeous pic’.
It was quite a show to watch for Kilkenny fans as TJ and co ran riot in the 32-point demolition.
Even with a whopping 20 Kilkenny wides, the game was as good as up by half-time when they led by 11.
Antrim chief Darren Gleeson had a face like thunder afterwards.
He said: “We gave up very early in the game, the work-rate wasn’t there.
“There wasn’t much expected of us coming to Kilkenny but you’d expect a bit of fight and determination.
“That was the most disappointing aspect.”
The Saffrons have less than a week to pick up the pieces as they host Wexford on Saturday.
That is a game they might have fancied winning at Corrigan Park, though this result will dent morale.
Gleeson said: “Your home games are going to be massively important in terms of where you end up in the Championship.
“But going by that level of performance today, if we repeat that we won’t be within an ass’ roar of it.
“Kilkenny hurl as a collective, we were very individual.”
The Leinster champions were only one up after 15 minutes, 0-5 to 0-4, but the floodgates opened after Reid’s 18th-minute goal — a close-range finish after a long ball in from Paddy Deegan.
They led 1-15 to 0-7 at half-time and added four more goals after the break, Wall impressing the 2,855 spectators with 49th- and 69th-minute majors.
Tiernan Smyth, who came on for black-carded keeper Ryan Elliott, gave travelling fans something to cheer about with a terrific save from a 22nd-minute Reid penalty.