O’Connor: We’re not the finished product, a long way from it

IN Kerry, it is joked, National Football League medals are used only as crib decorations, distractions to amuse the babies of the county.

All-Ireland championship medals, now those are a different matter. Those are the real McCoy.

In Limerick however, the National League is no joke. Without a single title yesterday’s semi-final in the Gaelic Grounds was an opportunity, perhaps of a lifetime, for Limerick to take a major step towards redressing that imbalance, against their neighbours. You would have assumed then that the hungrier team, the more driven team, was in green-and-white.