Favourite’s tag rests easy on Shaughs’ shoulders

ALL-IRELAND senior quarter-final, Limerick favoured to advance to the semis — who would have envisaged such a scenario at the start of this hurling year?

That’s the surprising situation however, for this Sunday’s meeting in Croke Park between the men in green-and-white and Clare, their neighbours from across the Shannon.

Even more surprising, given that in championship hurling Limerick have been playing second fiddle to Clare for the last decade, one All-Ireland title and two Munsters for the Banner, nothing to report for Limerick.