Limerick will be locked and loaded to detonate Laois

After the Clare-Limerick match last Sunday, I slipped back across the border for a Cheltenham Preview night at the Na Piarsaigh clubhouse in Caherdavin. Shane Dowling had asked me to attend last December and, I’m not sure if Dowler knew how the fixtures were falling at that stage, but it was almost ironic that the event was on the same evening that our two tribes had just gone to war.

The slagging was merciless but great craic. "The Clare lads were going down fair handy, looking for frees," one fella said to me. "Will ye go way," I replied, "Tom Morrissey pulled off his helmet at one stage and threw it down on the ground to get the match stopped." The first chance I got, I had an aul’ dig at Peter Casey.