A crowd of 3,224 is not what you expect for a first-round Munster SHL fixture on a cold and, at times, wet evening in mid-December. Then again, this wasn’t your run-of-the-mill pre-season blowout.

Mayo 5-19 Limerick 3-7

Mirabilis or horribilis? Your opinion of the hurling year so far probably owes a good deal to what happens when you turn on that geolocator on your phone, the one feeding all your personal information to a bot factory in Kazakhstan.

Limerick 4-21 Clare 0-33 (Limerick win 7-6 on frees AET)

Limerick secretary Mike O’Riordan doesn’t envisage the county will be in competition with Cork in the battle for GAA stadium naming rights.

Limerick GAA secretary Mike O’Riordan is not in favour of the new Super 8 format, calling for the introduction of a two-tier football championship.

At around half six on Sunday evening, most of the Galway team were to be found licking ice creams outside Supermacs on the Old Ennis Road.

Celebrating league titles are all the rage these days. Kerry’s footballers lost themselves for a minute or two on the Croke Park pitch before there was a collective realisation that it was early April. 

Kilmallock 1-15 Na Piarsaigh 0-14

Is it too late to offer a thought or two on the football semi-finals last week? No? Thanks for indulging me.

Limerick 0-24 Cork 0-15

I was tempted to follow the two women down the steps and into the tunnel under the Mackey Stand at half-time yesterday, but in the end, I didn’t.

Limerick secretary Mike O’Riordan will tell delegates at Sunday’s county convention the Gaelic Grounds is ‘operating at a loss.’

Dromcollogher-Broadford are keen to draw a line in the sand following the proposed 96-week ban the Limerick County Board handed to their supporter Martin Stokes.

COMING out of the Gaelic Grounds on Saturday, John Galvin could have been forgiven for thinking the match scoreline was his fault.

PAUL KINNERK takes you through his week. On Monday night, he trained with the Limerick senior footballers.

ARMAGH’s Stevie McDonnell is likely to be handed the Irish captaincy today for the forthcoming International Rules series against Australia.

CALM and articulate, sweating slightly, Tony Griffin was a relaxed figure in the tunnel under the Mackey Stand in the Gaelic Grounds yesterday.

Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent

LIMERICK’S hosting of their Guinness Munster SHC semi-final against Cork on Sunday is being heralded as a return to the days when the Gaelic Grounds was one of the principal venues in the country.