Imminence of the Munster championship makes Limerick and Clare potentially contesting a league final sub-optimal but needs must
Like Kilkenny of old, Limerick carry their championship dominance with them all year around. There’s no opportunity for a breather at less, hmm, ‘relevant’ times of the year.
Even last week’s sole blemish on the league record, a draw in Galway, was chiselled out of unpromising circumstances – a man down for more than 50 minutes after Shane O’Brien’s red card – and still they led going into injury time. For Limerick, they are coming in the other direction. Seán Finn returns from a serious knee injury, just 10 months after sustaining it and is named at full back, an unaccustomed role for the multiple All Star corner back.
Despite their annual meetings in the Munster championship, the counties haven’t had much business in the league in recent times. You’d have to go back to January 2019 for their last meeting in the competition, won by Tipp. In championship round robins the counties are two apiece with the unusual gloss that each have won those matches in away fixtures.
At the back, the spine of Conor Cleary and John Conlon has been solid and the younger players, like Darragh Lohan and Keith Smith have bedded in nicely. There appears to be little artifice behind the teams. Clare have Limerick in the first round of the championship in four weeks or within a fortnight of any notional final between the two.
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