Limerick boss Pat Donnelly: The future will take care of itself

Limerick manager Pat Donnelly sees no reason why his players can’t translate their U21 success into senior glory.

A second All-Ireland U21 title in three years has, as you’d expect, evoked comparisons between the current crop and the three-in-a-row winning teams from 2000-02. The latter failed to push on at senior level, but Donnelly doesn’t envisage past mistakes being repeated.

This is a group of players, after all, who, in 2015, secured U21 glory 12 months after coming up short in the minor final. And when their U21 title defence ran aground early in the summer of 2016, they regrouped under Donnelly and conquered all before them.