Shane McGrath: ‘I was getting letters at home, it wasn’t nice’

But a lack of form, consistency, and injury conspired to turn it into a season to forget. He was substituted the afternoon Tipperary lost to Limerick in the Munster SHC semi-final at the Gaelic Grounds and whipped off at half-time when Kilkenny won a raucous qualifier at Nowlan Park.
“I put too much pressure on myself and didn’t perform consistently for the year,” McGrath recalls of the trials and tribulations of that 2013 season.