Can Limerick rise to the occasion?

MUNSTER SHC SEMI-FINAL:

Both were born in the same year in the early 1940s. Both have endured — the operative word, in Kilmallock Man’s case — wildly different experiences supporting their county in the meantime.

Kilmacow Man has had it pretty handy. Not a lot to crow about as a child, and he was a teenager when, after two decades of near-famine, Kilkenny returned to prominence under Fr Tommy Maher in 1957. But they’ve stayed there ever since, and Kilmacow Man has enjoyed — again, the operative word — umpteen great days out. He wasn’t in Croke Park in ’57 but he was there in 1963 to watch Seamus Cleere hoist the silverware and he’s been there for every Noreside triumph since. That’s 20 All-Ireland triumphs he’s witnessed in person.