Ryan says questions remain over final defences

It was a bittersweet visit to Croke Park for TJ Ryan three weeks ago.

The Limerick hurling manager enjoyed the spectacle of the All-Ireland final, but having lost the semi-final narrowly, he couldn’t help thinking of what might have been.

“It’s a bit bittersweet, watching the game from the stand the last day, you’d be thinking, ‘we’d love to be there’, but Kilkenny did the business on the day against us.