A fiery history at the Gaelic Grounds

Limerick has hosted some of the all-time classic Munster hurling encounters

Let’s put our cards on the table. As a hurling venue, there is Thurles, and there’s everywhere else, and for a Munster final, for most of us, there’s nowhere else.

But Limerick has hosted some of the great clashes. When Cork and Tipperary set down the template for blood and iron hurling rivalries at the hinge of the last century, many of their magnificent seven Munster championship clashes between 1949 and 1954 were held in Limerick. The venue near the Shannon saw some of the most fabled events in hurling history.