Limerick must get mental side right

LIMERICK’S ambitions of winning their first Munster senior football championship in 130 years will come under intense scrutiny on Sunday — but it is their most recent outing that’s perplexing coach Mickey Ned O’Sullivan.

“It took us 34 minutes to get our opening score,” he mused in relation to the awful first round fare in Fermoy.

“We were playing into a very difficult wind that made scoring impossible. Also it was a first-round game and there was obviously some nervousness among the players on both sides.