‘There’s no hiding place in Croke Park. It’s sink or swim’, says Na Piarsaigh's Shane O’Neill

Na Piarsaigh face Cuala in today’s All-Ireland club hurling final, and Shane O’Neill, manager of the Limerick champions, still finds his club’s status difficult to conjure with.

Munster titles. Dominance in Limerick. All-Ireland appearances in Croke Park. When he was playing for the club, those were heights they’d never reached.

“There’s no way we would have thought, in the mid-noughties, that we’d have four Munster club titles and an All-Ireland club,” said O’Neill.