Limerick still paying high price after promotion ‘kick in the teeth’

It should go down as the Game That Never Was. As if no one ever paid or made their way through the turnstiles to watch it; as if no one ever played that Saturday evening; as if, for that moment in time, it didn’t seem to make the rest of the world fade into irrelevance, rather than the world soon after reducing that game to an irrelevance, writes Kieran Shannon.

A little less than seven years ago, Cuack Park in Ennis staged the clash of the home side Clare and neighbours, Limerick, under the then tutelage of Donal O’Grady.

Although it was ‘only’ the league, a Division Two final, everything about the game screamed of championship, a precursor to – and probable replica of – this summer’s mouth-watering tie when the same two counties face off in the last round of the new-look Munster championship.