Anthony Daly: 'Greatness' is bandied about but Limerick produced it again when it mattered

Limerick have been experts at timing their run but all those years of conditioning have turned them into a machine that, eventually, just wears and grinds teams down

UNDER PRESSURE: Limerick’s Dan Morrissey tries to claim possession under pressure from Kilkenny’s Martin Keoghan during the All-Ireland SHC final at Croke Park. Pic: Ray McManus/Sportsfile

Before Liam Sheedy, Donal Óg Cusack and I got ready to jump into a taxi to head to RTÉ from our hotel on Sunday morning, there was fierce drama. Sheedy forgot to bring up his suit. Cue pandemonium. A manic amount of calls were made. At one stage, Liam was wondering if his wife would be able to shoot up from Portroe with the attire until I reminded him that, unless she had a helicopter, to forget about it. And then, I came up with a solution.

We were inside in the RTÉ costume department looking for some kind of a shirt and pants that, for a start, would fit Sheedy, when Shane Dowling suddenly appeared to drop off his suit for the night-time show Sunday night. Light-bulb moment. ‘Dowling has got fitter,’ I said to Sheedy. ‘That will nearly fit you.’ Sheedy fired on the suit. It was perfect, which might be more of a question for Shane to answer than Liam, especially when Dowling is back hurling again. In fairness to Dowling, he wore the suit Sunday night but he was wearing a waistcoast and had decorated his appearance with a different shirt and tie.