Treaty despair as Kildare escape

Limerick frustrated Kildare for so long with a well thought out and executed plan, but in the end it was the Shannonsiders who left Portlaoise exasperated.

Kieran McGeeney’s words of praise will have meant little because they were so close to taking a prized scalp and they have had their fill of moral victories.

With Paudie Browne augmenting the full-back line and Seamus O’Carroll also coming deep, the Limerick defence looked impregnable at times, even as Kildare dominated the possession stakes in the second half.