Hickey: Limerick are men on a mission

GAA followers in the county believed it would take the Limerick hurlers years to get over the fallout from the bitter players’ strike of 2010.

Not so the players themselves, however, and as they head into Sunday’s Munster SHC final against Cork, star defender Seamus Hickey maintains the squad never lost belief and were determined to regroup under two former Cork managers and become a serious force again.

Articulate, able and assured, Hickey outlined his own baptism of fire, breaking onto the Limerick senior hurling team in 2006 as a teenager, reaching a National League, Munster and All-Ireland final over his first two years but losing all three.