Limerick have plea for replay delay rejected

LIMERICK have had their request for a postponement of next Saturday’s Munster SHC semi-final replay against Waterford turned down by the Provincial Council.

Hurling coach David Keane confirmed that he had asked the Limerick County Board to seek a postponement on the grounds that two players, Andrew O’Shaughnessy and Patrick Kirby, were doing their leaving certificate exams.

“I was duty bound to seek the postponement because of the two lads starting their exams tomorrow,” Keane said yesterday, “but I wasn’t holding out too much hope.