Emerging Emmets‘would live and die together’

FRANCE weren’t the only side who came to Ireland and ignored the sporting script on Sunday. In Limerick, London outfit Robert Emmets shocked Clare champions Clooney Quinn in the All-Ireland Club IHC semi-final and booked a March date with Galway’s Killimordaly in Croke Park.

Emmets chairman Tom Redmond is a little bemused by the reaction to the result. “The only people who are surprised are the people over in Ireland,” he admitted yesterday. “Everyone else certainly seems surprised by this. But not us.”

Emmets are no strangers to the All-Ireland club championship. Two years ago they reached the semi-finals — the first London club to do so in 11 years — but were crushed 2-12 to 0-5 by Carrickshock of Kilkenny on a miserable day in Bennetsbridge.