O’Grady ready for ‘shark pool’

HE’LL be back patrolling the Thurles sidelines this Sunday after a seven-year hiatus.

The last time Donal O’Grady was at the coalface in the Munster senior hurling championship, he was pipped in a classic in 2004 as Cork boss against Waterford. Since then he’s been in an observer role in the province and sampled the punditry game.

Now O’Grady has returned to the frontline, assuming the managerial reins of Limerick and plotting their preparations for a semi-final tilt with Waterford. Ask him is he enjoying being back and it’s clear that his ethos has not changed.