Canning injury dampens Fitzy’s joy but Limerick IT advance

An injury to talisman Joe Canning took the gloss off Limerick IT’s impressive Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-final victory in Moylish yesterday.

The Galway marksman had already accounted for 1-8 of his side’s 1-15 total at that stage and even in a game bristling with inter-county players, looked a class apart. But a 45th-minute collision (which looked accidental, no free awarded by All-Ireland final ref Brian Gavin) saw him leave the fray holding his left shoulder and in obvious pain.

LIT, inspired by Canning had four points on the board (including two from flying corner-forward Cathal McInerney, who gave Brian Mulrooney a torrid time) before Brian Hogan opened the GMIT account.