Martin Treacy a 1-17 to 5-5 draw. Treacy was also an unused substitute for the subsequent replay, which Waterford won by 3-12 to 1-10 win. After surrendering their provincial crown for the next two years, Treacy won a second Leinster medal in 1963 following a 2-10 to 0-9 defeat of Dublin. This victory allowed Kilkenny to advance directly into an All-Ireland showdown with Waterford on 1 September 1963. "The Cats" entered the game as underdogs, however, star forward Eddie Keher proved to be the difference with a magnificent display in which he scored fourteen points. Despite a hat-trick of goals from Waterford's
Martin Treacy championship crown again the following year, however, a 4-9 to 1-4 trouncing of Glenmore in 1964 gave Treacy a fourth championship medal. Mooncoin wrested the title from "the Bridge" in 1965, however, Treacy won his fifth and sixth championship medals following victories over Mooncoin and Thomastown over the following two years. Treacy made his senior championship debut on 12 July 1959 in a 2-9 to 1-11 provincial final defeat of Dublin. It was his first Leinster medal. Treacy was later dropped from the starting fifteen for Kilkenny's All-Ireland final meeting with Waterford on 6 September 1959. That came ended in