Mauling by Cork just one of those days, says John Kiely

You can probably remember the last Limerick-Cork clash pretty clearly. It was a couple of weeks ago, but what separated it from the other Munster senior hurling league games was the scoreline: Cork had 21 points to spare at the end and found the net seven times in 70 minutes. Unsurprisingly, eyebrows were raised.

But here Limerick are again, in the final of that same competition. When their manager John Kiely says his players reacted well to that defeat, he’s clearly not just massaging their confidence.

“On reflection it was just one of those days where a bunch of young players just all failed to cope with a situation together,” Kiely says now of that Cork game.