columnistsTipperary’s sharpness on show from the warm-up, but was this Limerick’s phoney war?Watching both teams warming up, I zeroed in on the goalkeepers.
gaaHow come the west is asleep in Tipp hurling?September 1, 1997. The day John Kiely began teaching in The Abbey was Conor O’Brien’s first as a student in the Tipperary town secondary school. Just as there was heartache for a young O’Brien in seeing Tipperary go down to Clare later that month, there had been for Kiely as a member of Tom Ryan’s Limerick panel against Wexford 12 months previous.