All-conquering Limerick riding the crest of a wave as they bid for a record six Munster titles in a row
Shane Dowling celebrates Limerick's win over Cork in the 2013 Munster final at the Gaelic Grounds, Limerick. Photograph: Lorraine O'Sullivan/Inpho“Limerick are making a rare Munster final appearance,” said Michael Lyster on The Sunday Game. Fourteen of the Limerick players were experiencing it for the first time. Tommy Quaid was the exception. He had waited 11 years, convinced by a shimmering mirage in the distance.
Mark Foley’s father Vincent was a Limerick selector that day and young Foley was a hurley carrier. He was 17. Niall Moran was nine years of age. It was Limerick’s first Munster final since before he was born. Limerick's Brian Geary and Waterford's John Mullane contest a high ball during the 2007 Munster final. Photograph: Lorraine O'Sullivan/Innpho
“I remember being inside in Limerick that night and a lot of the Clare crowd would have gone home through Limerick. I was with a few of the players and the Clare crowd were up and down O’Connell Street and around Henry Street and back up again. It was like a ticker-tape parade through Limerick city. You just had to bite your lip.”
“At half-time I said, ‘I can’t move my leg,’ so I was put up full-forward. I played 70 minutes in the Munster final in ‘75 with a torn hamstring.” A year later Cork were on the cusp of the same record that Limerick are chasing this weekend: six in a row. Limerick spiked their guns. For the first time in 40 years they had beaten Cork in a Munster final. The team ate dinner in Hayes’ Hotel, with a curtain pulled across the ballroom for a tissue of privacy. It was just a temporary injunction.
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