Limerick will still be a force, warns Stapleton

While supporters of Limerick hurling are still coming to terms with events of the last few days, Tipperary’s Paddy Stapleton — Limerick’s opponents in the Munster championship on June 1 — warns it might turn out to be a blessing in disguise.

“These things happen in sport, you often see management coming in and out,” he said. “It can have a positive effect as much as anything. You see that with soccer teams a lot, they change the manager and get a big reaction.

“From our point of view, it changes nothing. They still have one half of the management team that was there, I’m sure there’s not going to be much of a change. In each of the last two years, we’ve met Limerick in the first round.