Pressure mounting in Limerick

HEADING inexorably down the same rutted briar-ridden cul-de-sac as that travelled by Cork GAA several times over the past decade, that’s Limerick hurling today.

The announcement yesterday the management committee of the county board are still ‘unanimously’ behind under-pressure Justin McCarthy, even after several more high-profile players had pulled out of the panel, means that Limerick are now facing into a new season with only a fraction of the 2009 panel still in place.

As Cork found earlier on this year – to their cost – that doesn’t work.