Home-schooled Tobin prepared for toughest exam of them all

It’s less than five years since Limerick last met Kilkenny in a championship game, the All-Ireland final of 2007.

But in a sign of the rapidly changing times on Shannonside, of the starting 15 that September day only Seamus Hickey, Donal O’Grady and Brian Geary remain on the panel for the All-Ireland quarter-final this Sunday in Thurles (4pm).

One of the many new and exciting faces on the Limerick team is corner-forward Seánie Tobin who, along with Graeme Mulcahy in the other corner, will offer a dangerous twin threat to Kilkenny.