O’Brien rages at backing for McCarthy

MIKE O’BRIEN doesn’t normally do interviews, notoriously gun-shy when it comes to facing any kind of microphone, so when you get a call from him saying he wants to talk, you know that this is an upset individual.

“I’m bulling,” said the Glenroe farmer. It’s not a raging anger but it’s deep, has been building for some time, and now it needs ventilating.

Mike was one of the infamous 12 who were cut by Limerick senior hurling manager Justin McCarthy back in October 2009, but that isn’t what has him so exercised now. It isn’t even the fact that after 12 years service with the county he wasn’t given the courtesy of a phone call.