Greener pastures on horizon

PERHAPS it was inevitable. When Limerick GAA chiefs looked around for a hurling manager to succeed Justin McCarthy, there was one candidate who’d achieved considerable success after similar acrimony.

For the 2009 Limerick hurlers’ lengthy stand-off with their county board, read the Cork hurlers’ brief strike in late 2002. Donal O’Grady was the coach the Cork County Board turned to back then, and now he’s in charge of Limerick.

When you meet O’Grady for a coffee before he heads to training on Shannonside you say that at this rate he’ll get a reputation.