Enda McEvoy: The identity of Limerick's nearest rivals is discernible solely by means of binoculars
Limerick players including Dan Morrissey and Nickie Quaid celebrate after the All-Ireland final win over Cork. Picture: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile
So after a Sunday on which a very good team became a great team and the most satisfying of summers concluded with a full orchestral performance by the champions, which one of the following were you?
Maybe you were one of those Limerick men who in their youth a quarter of a century ago crawled out of the rubble of Jones’s Road twice in three years and wondered if the sun would ever shine again. Now you’re middle-aged and your teenage offspring have twice been there in the past few years — it should have been three times, of course — to see the county win the All-Ireland. They can barely remember a day when the sun didn’t shine.
