When it was over, when Ben Stafford’s meteor had finally fallen to earth and St Martin’s had to start getting used to the fact that they were Leinster champions for the first time, Daithí Hayes turned and looked up into the Hogan Stand. Looking back at him were all the years and all the threads of almost a century’s work, all coming together in a couple of hundred souls bouncing in the December cold. Glorious. The Martins are from Piercestown, just a few miles out the road from Wexford town. For the vast majority of their existence, nobody mistook them for a power of Wexford hurling. Their first senior title came in 1999, a full 67 years after they were founded and they’ve been county...
