Galvin raises the bar for Limerick football

LIMERICK travel — not in hope but in expectation — to Cusack Park in Ennis tomorrow for a Munster SFC semi-final appointment with John Kennedy’s Clare.

Victory over champions Cork has created an ever-developing wave of support and fame for Liam Kearns' project along the Shannon. Characters like Diarmuid Sheehy, John Quane and Muiris Gavin are enjoying the kind of adulation usually reserved for their hurling colleagues.

Standing above them all however, literally and physically, is young midfielder John Galvin. At 6'5", and blessed with superb athleticism, Galvin is a lord of the soaring catch, the prime source of possession for many Limerick attacks, and more than anyone else is the new face of football in the county.