We don’t talk about John Kiely’s side the way we did about Kilkenny and Dublin in the recent past
Limerick manager John Kiely lifts the Liam MacCarthy Cup at Croke Park after the win over Kilkenny in last year's final. Photograph: Laszlo Geczo/Inpho
We noted they were wedded to a fairly defined line-up, all ageing together, and wondered how they’d survive a few key injuries. Well, they’ve lost their best defender in Seán Finn and their glue in Declan Hannon and still they’ve kept trucking. They’re incredible. We don’t say it anywhere near enough. Certainly not in the way we said it when Kilkenny were on the verge of completing their own four-in-a-row or the Dublin footballers theirs. By this stage with both of those teams, their greatness had become wallpaper, hanging in the background of every championship conversation. Plenty of us had become bored with it, dying for someone to come along and put an end to it.
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