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17th September 2018
10:40am BST

He may be only 21 but all hurling folk in the Kingdom have been hearing stories about this rising star for years now. They'd heard that this lad has got something different and as soon as they seen him in action they came out knowing that he'd make it on any team in the country.
He's been standing out all the way through the Kerry underage ranks and he's been winning championships for Lixnaw too.
Just three weeks ago this man scored 0-13 in the Kerry SHC final to bring his club their first senior title since 2014. He'd been through the heartbreak the year previous when as a 19-year-old he scored 1-10 in the drawn final, including a late leveller from a sideline cut before they came up short in the replay.
He wasn't there in 2014 but he was the one who made the difference four years on.
And with the Kerry championship complete, the student is displaying his great gifts across the country in Cork now. Think what you will about UCC playing in the Cork SHC with players from clubs all over the county and from other counties too but they've readied many a Cork man for the Rebel senior jersey and they've given players like Shane Conway a chance in one of Ireland's most competitive hurling championships too.
Shane Conway is taking the responsibility into the grains of his hurley and on his Rolex wrists. He was the key man when UCC dumped Erin's Own out of the Cork Championship three weeks ago, the Kerryman racking up 0-10 points that day.
https://twitter.com/LixnawGAA/status/1036526227115393024
And Buff Egan was down in Cork on Sunday when the college faced their biggest challenge yet against Sarsfields. UCC ran out 0-20 to 1-14 winners and two men were the difference.
One was Darragh Fitzgibbon, the best young hurler in Ireland this year and the second was Shane Conway, the Kingdom star's frees unerring and his general play class.
He ran rings around Sarsfield backs, he tapped points over off the hurl, he scored a few lovely ones on the run.
https://twitter.com/LixnawGAA/status/1041605263378329601
This man is coming, and he probably would make most county teams in Ireland.