Limerick legend Carey still loving life in green

HE’S 38, he played senior inter-county for Limerick from 1989 to 2004, won three All Star awards, two National Leagues, two Munster championships, 10 senior counties with Patrickswell, his club, but Ciarán Carey still hasn’t had enough.

Still going strong with the Well, this Sunday in Semple Stadium, a place he knows so well, a place that knows him so well, he lines up at full-back for the Limerick intermediate team that faces Clare in the Munster semi-final. To some it will be seen as a comedown, an act of folly, putting his reputation on the line after a sterling career at the top.

To others, it’s an act of courage, an act of defiance, the act of a man who is very much his own man, who will not be dictated to by convention.