Limerick set up promotion showdown with Clare

Offaly 0-14 Limerick 1-19: Limerick’s Shannonside derby clash with Clare in a fortnight’s time will be a promotion showdown regardless of results next weekend after Limerick eased to an eight-point win over Offaly at O’Connor Park in Tullamore yesterday.

Offaly manager Eamon Kelly declared the final scoreline to be “generous to Limerick.” However, both managers will have to take a long hard look at their stats sheets for this game after huge error counts were racked up in an otherwise competitive, sometimes bordering on combative, encounter between two familiar rivals.

Limerick’s promotion bids in 2014 and 2015 were derailed by Offaly and the Treaty county opened the door for history to repeat itself by shooting 16 wides in total, 11 in the first-half.