Anthony Daly: This must be one of the sweetest titles Kilmallock have won
Kilmallock's Micheal Houlihan celebrates after the game with Dan Joy. Picture: INPHO/Laszlo Geczo
Limerick have never known such heady times with three All-Irelands in four years but one of the highlights of yesterday for me was the manner in which the Limerick public showed how they’ve never forgotten the men that went before them. The Limerick team which we jousted with for so long throughout the 90s may never have won an All-Ireland but those guys were such great men that they carved a path for the generations coming after them to follow.
When they were being introduced to the crowd beforehand, I even – discreetly – got in on the act. I was in the TV/Radio press box above the Mackey Stand so a couple of the Limerick lads waved to me when they spotted me. The memory of Ciaran Carey coming up that field and scoring the winning point against us will never leave me but yesterday reminded me of how none of us could catch him on that scorching eternal day in 1996 – he still looks as fit as some of the players on the field.
