John Kiely points to the positives

Limerick manager John Kiely said his team had “made it too hard on ourselves” by letting Clare open an eight-point gap in the first half of yesterday’s Munster SHC semi-final.

Limerick managed to draw level but Clare built another lead and the Shannonsiders couldn’t overhaul them again, though Kiely said it would have been “interesting” if they’d managed to do so.

“We just left them have too big a gap at the outset, the first quarter-twenty minutes. We made it too hard on ourselves, though we responded really well, we took the game to them and dominated there for maybe ten minutes, we closed the gap right up - it was 11 all at one stage.