McCarthy praises new look panel

OFF the field, the raging inferno that is the Limerick hurling crisis burns on, yet between the white lines Justin McCarthy is attempting to plough on with the preparation work for the 2010 season.

Saturday afternoon in Mallow was the first port of call with Wexford providing the opposition in the low-key setting of a challenge match.

McCarthy’s decision to wield the axe to his panel last October and the subsequent deluge of withdrawals have decimated Limerick’s squad and only two of last year’s championship panel, Brian O’Sullivan and Paudie McNamara, started this match.