So near and yet so far, says McKenna

FOR ten minutes during the first-half of yesterday’s second game, the spectre of Kilkenny’s annihilation of Offaly hung over proceedings at Croke Park.

With the first quarter done and dusted, Limerick had already picked up a couple of flesh wounds without the damage ever threatening to prove fatal.

Then Joe McKenna’s side suddenly found the ground shifting under their feet with Kilkenny plundering seven unanswered points.