Limerick may pick up the weekend’s most valuable points

In the last round of the league in 2013, Dublin played Carlow in Parnell Park. We were second in Division 1B so we needed to win to ensure we made the final against Limerick, writes Anthony Daly.

There were about 600 people in the ground but there was so little interest in our game that I could hear the conversations in the stand behind me, all the heated discussion and debates on potential permutations in a division we weren’t even in.

I was walking across the pitch afterwards when this fella came up to me. “Clare were hammered by Tipp,” he said. “Ye’re in the relegation final now against Cork.” I looked at him as if to suggest that the game he had just watched meant nothing. “So are the Dubs (we) in any final?” I replied.