Nobody can be complacent in Na Piarsaigh panel, warns Shane O’Neill

Given the wealth of underage successes the club has enjoyed in recent years, the turnover in the Na Piarsaigh team shouldn’t come as a surprise.

From the starting XV which delivered the club’s maiden Munster crown in 2011, just five – goalkeeper Podge Kennedy, centre-back Cathal King, half-back Alan Dempsey, Kevin Downes and David Breen - were part of the side which crushed Blackrock in the Munster semi-final of two weeks ago.

Excusing the injured Shane Dowling, that’s an impressive number of new faces over a six-year period, especially considering two more Munster titles were added in 2013 and ’15, not to mention a first All-Ireland club for Limerick on St Patrick’s Day in 2016.