Anthony Daly: Immortality beckons for this great Limerick team

The Liam MacCarthy Cup with Limerick and Kilkenny jerseys before the GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Final between Kilkenny and Limerick at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo by Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

How the years are flying by. How they keep flying by. It only feels like the other day when it was 2009 and we were talking about Kilkenny’s quest for the four-in-a-row just like we are discussing Limerick’s similar journey now. The biggest difference this time around though, is nobody could have seen this march coming so quickly after Kilkenny’s all-conquering crusade of the late 2000s.

How could anyone have foreseen this happening, and this quickly? Being honest, I never thought I would see a better team than Cody’s Kilkenny in my lifetime but here they now are on their doorstep, after Limerick’s relentless charge, less than two decades later.