Kieran Shannon: Record-breaking potential of Limerick hurlers is the stuff of dreams

Limerick appear out on their own in a way unimaginable even when ‘Dreams’ and Dolores rang around Croker in 2018

Limerick’s Kyle Hayes on his way to goal pursued by Tipperary’s Michael Breen at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Sunday. Picture: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

For a team that seems to pay little heed to history, Limerick have a habit of evoking — and creating — it. Almost every championship day they go out now they have us stretching for the record books as well as new superlatives.

Already Keith Duggan has described Kyle Hayes’s goal last Sunday as the county’s Ciarán Carey moment for the 21st century: another astonishing solo run from another astonishing player as comfortable playing in the half-back line where he began his run as the half-forward line where he finished it.