Anthony Daly: New model Limerick make it personal leaving Cork with soul searching to do

The personnel is the same but there is a different structure to this Limerick team now to the one that couldn’t beat Cork last year

HOLD ON: Cork’s Alan Connolly has his helmet tugged by Diarmaid Byrnes of Limerick Pic: James Crombie, Inpho

I was in the Gaelic Grounds early Sunday morning, before noon, where the only people outside the ground at that stage were lads selling hats and flags, and this fella in a chip van who was trying to get the generator going.

Your man wasn’t happy. The fella alongside him in the van was getting a fair roasting. He looked disorientated and dishevelled, under the weather even, while his boss was all business.