Limerick’s Galvin ready for next step

It was a game that will be quickly scrubbed from the memory but for one player, the 32-point thrashing Limerick handed out to Kilkenny last Saturday was a hugely significant occasion.

A Division 4 tie in Newcastlewest against the basement county was as low-key a GAA setting imaginable, yet the substitute that Limerick boss Maurice Horan pushed into action in the 41st minute embraced the occasion with feverish excitement.

Ten months after his cruciate ligament snapped in a challenge against Down in Santry, the road to recovery was complete for Limerick’s celebrated midfielder, John Galvin.