Limerick swarm like killer bees. And Waterford got badly stung

I was on the road to Dublin yesterday morning at 6.15am. It wasn’t easy to roll out of the cot at that ungodly hour but I arranged Kilmacud Crokes training early so I could be organised and be able to get into Croke Park early.

And yet despite all my planning, I still got my calculations wrong. Part of that was down to me underestimating the scale of the Mayo support because when I went to buy a ticket at the office just after noon, the options available weren’t hectic. And that is how I ended up watching the game from the Davin End corner of the stadium.