Gardiner: everything from now on is a bonus

NEITHER captain was making outrageous claims about the quality of the hurling in yesterday’s NHL quarter-final between Cork and Limerick.

The verdicts ranged from not great to tame enough, but there was no mistaking which skipper was the happier in the bowels of the Gaelic Grounds yesterday.

“We’re happy enough with the result, even if we didn’t play that well,” said Cork’s John Gardiner.