The win wasn’t a must for Limerick last time out. Now it is.
It’s 21 years ago now, but Clare’s league semi-final performance against Cork in 1998 has long been cast into hurling folklore, as much for what we didn’t do, or were supposed to have done beforehand, than anything to do with the final score.
Cork leathered us, but there was such a mystique around Ger Loughnane and Clare at that time that the story went that he ordered us to throw the game. We were supposed to have done a two-hour running session that morning. There were reports from Tipperary that Mike Mac ran us into the ground during the warm-up in Templemore beforehand.
