Disappointed Keane says Limerick ‘never gelled all year’

POST-MORTEM is too harsh a word for the kind of soul-searching that normally goes on in a county after a championship defeat, but it probably just about fits the bill in Limerick this week.

In 11 catastrophic days, last Wednesday week they were beaten in the U21 Munster hurling championship having been All-Ireland champions for the past three years. And then on the following Sunday they lost the Munster senior football final to Kerry by just four points, having missed two penalties and a golden early goal opportunity from play.

Last Thursday evening in Thurles despite being the popular favourites they went under to Offaly in the All-Ireland senior hurling qualifiers and, finally, to cap the misery, succumbed to a goal-fest from All-Ireland champions Armagh in Roscommon on Saturday in the All-Ireland qualifier series.