Limerick make crucial push to see off Cork

Limerick 1-20 Cork 1-18

The Munster League final reverse and more pertinently, the seven-goal annihilation on their own patch at the hands of the Rebels back in January would have played on the collective mindset as they made the journey south for yesterday’s quarter-final.

Could they stomach three defeats to their next door neighbours within a two and a half month spell - and we not even beyond the first week of April?