Highly-rated strength and conditioning coach Ross Corbett, who worked with Limerick’s 2015 All-Ireland U21 winning hurlers, has accepted a dream job with AFL outfit Sydney Swans.

It is exactly 12 months since the Limerick U21 footballers came within a whisker of upsetting Cork in a seven goal Munster quarter-final thriller.

Limerick’s All-Ireland U21-winning half-back Gearóid Hegarty has expressed his desire to play both hurling and football for the county at senior level.

It has been a year of firsts for Gearoid Hegarty — a Limerick hurling debut, a first Munster championship win followed quickly by a provincial medal and now a first All-Ireland final appearance.

Making an All-Ireland final was a long way down John Kiely’s to-do list when he was appointed Limerick U21 boss last winter.

Limerick GAA chiefs last night rubber-stamped the controversial appointment of John Kiely as U21 hurling manager.

Limerick senior manager John Brudair is seriously concerned about the state of underage football in the county.

Former Clare captain Brian O’Connell could return to inter-county action after being given a trial period of four to six weeks to secure a spot in Davy Fitzgerald’s squad for their Munster SHC semi-final against Waterford on June 17.

Ten minutes in the engaging company of teenage Na Piarsaigh prodigy Shane Dowling, that’s all it takes to understand why hurling in Limerick is on the rise and why hurling in the city is going from strength to strength.

IT was a Monday morning feeling with a difference for Crusheen captain Gerry O’Grady yesterday after his side and Na Piarsaigh played out the first draw in the Munster club senior hurling championship since 1985.

LIMERICK’S Na Piarsaigh GAA club is bucking a national trend.

MICHEÁL McDERMOTT is set to focus exclusively on the Clare senior footballers in the wake of Monaleen’s exit from the Munster club championship on Sunday.

FORMER playing star Leo O’Connor has admitted huge disappointment after losing his job as Limerick U21 hurling manager.

JOHN FITZGERALD will go forward for ratification as the new Limerick U21 hurling manager at a board meeting tonight with former senior star Ollie Moran set to fill a role as a selector in his management team.

THERE were several shocks around the country yesterday but perhaps the biggest was in Limerick where Na Piarsaigh claimed their first county title with a 2-18 to 0-13 win over Ahane at the Gaelic Grounds.

“THE famine is over, let the feast begin,” rejoiced team captain Kieran Bermingham after his fledgling north city Limerick club, set up in 1968, won a first county senior hurling title with a comprehensive victory over Ahane at the Gaelic Grounds yesterday.

NEWCOMERS versus old money in Limerick this weekend, where Na Piarsaigh are chasing a first county SHC title.

A FOUR goal blast from John Fitzgibbon saw Adare book their place in the Limerick SHC quarter-finals and lay down a marker to all contenders in the remaining eight.

THE wheel has turned full circle. Last year Gavin O’Mahony was a bystander in Limerick hurling, observed a season of adverse fortunes for the county.

TWO of the country’s brightest young hurling talents are set to put their senior intercounty championship debuts on hold due to their Leaving Cert commitments this summer.

LIMERICK GAA chiefs are set to appoint Mayo native Maurice Horan as their new senior football boss.

LIAM KEARNS could be set for a second spell as Limerick football manager.

UTGOING Limerick boss Justin McCarthy has secured a nomination for the position of the county’s senior hurling manager despite a controversial two-year reign in charge on Shannonside.

I TOOK a trip down memory lane yesterday when I attended the Munster senior football championship quarter-final between Waterford and Clare in Fraher Field, Dungarvan.

THERE’S a book going to hit your shelves in a few weeks’ time, ‘Unlimited Heartbreak’, by Henry Martin — it should be made compulsory reading for every Limerick hurling supporter.

GLEN ROVERS, Blackrock and Sarsfields will have new managers at the helm this season.

BACK to the well once too often that's what many people thought of Gary Kirby's decision to give it another season with Patrickswell this year.

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