Richie Bennis has no doubts when asked which Patrickswell team this current side remind him of.

The last man to lead Limerick to an All-Ireland hurling final believes one crucial commodity is holding the county back from a return to that elite level — consistency.

Richie Bennis and Mark Foley are keeping their fingers crossed Páirc Uí Chaoimh will tonight be chosen as the venue for Limerick’s Munster final meeting with Cork on July 13.

In hurling there’s a cycle every 20 years or so in the middle section of the decade. “New teams” surface and hold sway until they fade and the big guns boom again.

Seamus Horgan (24, 5’11’’, 11-7 Tournafulla): “Like a lot of goalkeepers Seamus was also a very good outfield player but ended up in goals because he could be a bit wild out there!

In a commando-style operation, a team of cleaners have removed graffiti from the Cliffs of Moher as they worked held up by ropes 180m above the sea.

FORMER Limerick boss Richie Bennis insists all the pressure is on Dublin in Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC quarter-final.

LIMERICK secretary Mike O’Riordan has hinted the county board will ask Donal O’Grady to reconsider his plans to step down as senior hurling manager this year — regardless of Sunday’s All-Ireland quarter-final result against Dublin.

GAA legend Phil Bennis has accusedLimerick GAA chiefs of ‘bully-boy tactics’ in a growing dispute over a motion to convention to create a separate county hurling board.

LIMERICK hurling legend Richie Bennis believes the appointment of new manager Donal O’Grady will ‘automatically heal the wounds’ created by this year’s standoff on Shannonside.

LIMERICK legend Richie Bennis has launched a stinging attack on county board chiefs on Shannonside.

NORA Bennis (Letters, July 14) wonders why senators such as the gay Protestant David Norris refuse to listen to Catholic bishops on matters of personal morality.

LIMERICK GAA chiefs last night had received four nominations for the position of county senior hurling boss ahead of today’s deadline for submissions by clubs across the county with former playing legend Gary Kirby the only confirmed candidate after being nominated by his club Patrickswell to succeed Justin McCarthy.

FORMER Limerick hurling manager Richie Bennis has insisted Justin McCarthy’s style of coaching “doesn’t suit” the county’s needs.

FORMER Limerick hurling manager Richie Bennis believes current boss Justin McCarthy must take a huge chunk of blame for the crisis which has gripped the county.

HE’S BACK in Croke Park for another All-Ireland hurling semi-final, this time with a different team, but driven by the same enduring passion for the game which has literally dominated his life for close on half a century.

YOU can tell right-wing religious groups are scraping the bottom of the barrel when they have to resort to praising themselves in letters to the Irish Examiner.

Tom Ryan has announced his withdrawal as a candidate for the position of Limerick senior hurling manager, as well as putting a halt to his threatened legal action.

Richie Bennis' two-year term as Limerick senior hurling manager is officially overafter the Patrickswell clubman was axed by the Limerick Co Board.

Limerick hurling manager Richie Bennis has hit out strongly at a group of players whom he says "broke their hearts in training and then went drinking".

YOU know it’s going to be difficult for the Limerick management and players to look in at the Munster hurling final, knowing what it meant to be there last year and believing that they should again be participants again tomorrow.

Beaten 2007 All-Ireland SHC finalists Limerick are gunning for a national trophy this season.

RICHIE BENNIS believes he is far better equipped to lead the Limerick hurlers to some silverware this year now that he has a full season under his belt as an inter-county manager.

A DIGITALLY generated newspaper advert with Pope Benedict and two bishops wining and dining at a Limerick pub is to be checked out by the Advertising Standards Authority.

Talented Limerick forward James O'Brien has decided to focus on the club scene for 2008 and has withdrawn from the Limerick senior hurling squad ahead of next year's league campaign.

I WOULD take issue with the letter from Nora Bennis headlined “Irrational opposition to religion in schools” (November 30).

NORA BENNIS’S criticism (Letters, November 30) of my views (November 26) on faith-based schools reveals her own pro-Catholic agenda.

THE GAA will be pressing ahead with plans for regional ‘centres of excellence’ featuring floodlit synthetic playing surfaces with even more enthusiasm following the positive response from the players who took part in the Vodafone Allstars exhibition game in New York’s Gaelic Park on Saturday.

Brian Cody and Richie Bennis have been appointed as managers of the Vodafone All-Star Hurling panels of 2006 and 2007 for the exhibition game at New York's Gaelic Park this coming Saturday.

Manager Richie Bennis is happy that his players are fully focused on the job facing them when they tackle Kilkenny in the Guinness All-Ireland SHC final this Sunday, throw-in at 3.30pm.

Limerick senior hurling manager Richie Bennis has decided to keep faith in the same 15 players who overcame Waterford in the semi-final for Sunday's All-Ireland final showdown with Kilkenny (Croke Park, throw-in 3.30pm).

Limerick corner-back Seamus Hickey believes that the honesty which his side have displayed both on and off the pitch this year has been key in their progress through to next Sunday's All-Ireland SHC final against Kilkenny.