Promotion push costs Limerick

Limerick GAA chairman Oliver Mann has suggested that too much emphasis is being placed on securing promotion from Division 1B of the hurling league.

Limerick’s four-point defeat to Clare in the Division 1B playoff last March condemned the Treaty hurlers to a seventh successive season in the league’s second tier, with county board treasurer Donal Morrissey informing delegates at last night’s convention that Limerick’s absence from Division 1A is depriving their coffers of roughly €100,000 per annum.

During his chairman’s address, Mann questioned whether the hurlers’ failure to garner league promotion had a direct impact on a below-par championship which ended at the second round of qualifiers.