Shane O’Neill believes Na Piarsaigh not getting enough credit
Neither manager nor club weren’t allowed to dwell on reclaiming the Limerick crown they had lost to Kilmallock last year. Making amends for it was sweet but he gets the sense credit was in short supply for Na Piarsaigh when both the build-up and aftermath of the final was dominated by Patrickswell’s return to the big stage, their first final in nine years.
Na Piarsaigh were simply not as sexy a story. “There was relief in that we were beaten the year before as opposed to anything to do with Patrickswell,” says O’Neill. “We knew they had played well during the year but it seemed to be lost that we were also unbeaten during the year. There was a huge focus on Patrickswell and even since the final there has been a focus on Patrickswell but that’s fine. We won it and there was relief because we hadn’t turned up the previous year when we had only played for 10 minutes.
