Carey’s cathartic journey

Just like Limerick hurling, Ciarán Carey is now looking onward and upward after a troublesome and painful past

TOP class.

It’s how he was viewed as a player, the best Limerick hurler of the last 25 years according to a competition that honoured him at a gala 18 months ago, and the scorer of “the greatest winner ever scored” in the view of that most captious of hurling critics, Kevin Cashman, a view that anyone who witnessed that incredible solo effort against Clare in ‘96 would hardly dispute.