Enda McEvoy: A great team deserving of the most glorious coronation ceremony

No frigid December afternoon in an empty, sterile house, this, nor even a half-full Croke Park in August. Here instead was the day John Kiely’s Limerick were created, moulded, honed and Kinnerked for.

COLOSSUS: Limerick's Gearoid Hegarty and goalkeeper Eoin Murphy of Kilkenny after the game. ©INPHO/James Crombie

Great teams deserve great coronations. Yesterday Limerick finally had theirs.

Marching bands. Cheering crowds. Blazing weather. Colour and ceremony. Pomp and circumstance.