Cruise for awesome Cross

AWESOME. If ever there was a sporting equivalent to that meteorological phenomenon known as the perfect storm then this was it. Drom/Broadford just happened to be the poor souls caught squarely in its path.

This result will, inevitably, be second-guessed on the basis of Drom’s postal address in Limerick but let’s have none of that. Few clubs would have lived with Crossmaglen on Saturday. Maybe none at all.

One or two of the Limerick lads left the field in tears but most were too shell-shocked to betray any emotion. Their manager John Brudáir summed it up best in the aftermath