At club level, he played with John Locke's and was a member of the Kilkenny senior hurling team.
[1] Power first came to prominence at juvenile and underage levels with John Locke's while simultaneously lining out with the Callan CBS team that lost consecutive All-Ireland finals in 1982 and 1983.
Power enjoyed his first success at the adult club level in 1993 when John Locke's won the County Intermediate Championship, before claiming a second title in 1999.
He re-joined the senior team shortly after and would go on to line out in three consecutive All-Ireland finals at senior level and, after defeat by Tipperary in 1991, claimed consecutive winners' medals against Cork in 1992 and Galway in 1993.
[2][3][4] Power was later dropped from the team before earning a recall under new manager Brian Cody in 1999.