Mickey Ned hails historic Limerick victory
The pre-match romance swirled around the Waterford camp as they became the first football team from the county to set foot on the Croke Park sod for a final, but Limerick’s ultimate triumph was also heart-warming. Captain Seanie Buckley noted in his victory speech on the Hogan Stand podium that it had been over a century since a Limerick football team had grasped national silverware, and although this Limerick side dream of landing championship prizes in their provincial domain, this is still a success that they will cherish. Manager Mickey Ned O’Sullivan certainly reckoned afterwards that the win deserved proper attention: “It’s great for the football people of Limerick who have toiled for the last hundred years. It’s great recognition for the work that they’ve done at underage level and in the clubs.
“It’s good for the county board too, who have got a lot of stick but they’ve given us a lot of support and there hasn’t been any preferential treatment between hurling and football. It’s not a football county, but we could make it a football county.”
