Croker take note: plenty still at stake in Limerick
He’s best remembered for that mawkish book, which was made into a movie that inflicted Ryan O’Neal on us – enough said – but his life teaching in Harvard gave us one of his wittiest putdowns: the reason academic fighting is so vicious, said Segal, is because so little is at stake.
There’s a lot at stake in Limerick at the moment – the future of one of the few counties which takes hurling seriously, and that’s not overstating it. But it’s certainly vicious.
