Honour in failure for Limerick

Not an epic match but an epic contest, a struggle of Old Testament proportions, with weather conditions to match, and only a plague of frogs lacking.

Had the television coverage been directed by Cecil B De Mille, it wouldn’t have come as a shock.

And yes, heartbreak for the Green and White at the end of it. Again. But, for once, this was proper, grownup heartbreak. What tears were shed for a proper, recognisably grownup championship team.