Going back to their roots helps Limerick take leap forward

I questioned on Saturday how many tight games this Tipperary team had won, thought this might be the one. I was wrong, they came up short again, and in their home ground.

This was a significant win for Limerick. I met Eamonn Grimes and Pat Hartigan before the game, both of them members of the last Limerick team to win a championship match in Semple Stadium and that was 1973 — we know what happened that year.

Both Eamonn and Pat were confident Limerick were about to break that Thurles bogey, they liked the cut of this team. How right they were. This was Limerick playing the Limerick way, good and strong, and direct. And, of course, the heart, the passion — that was there in abundance. Even among the supporters you could feel it and that carried out onto the pitch.