Limerick a force to be reckoned with

Limerick 2-26 Waterford 1-16

Limerick, with their most complete championship performance in several years, swagger on. Waterford, with not a single punch left in them, stumble out.

Challenge-game pace had replaced championship intensity by the end of this clash. Limerick’s Shane Dowling, Kyle Hayes, Tom Morrissey, and Gearoid Hegarty were guilty of striking a handful of poor wides, but aside from a brief exhale of frustration from Treaty manager John Kiely, no one in the crowd of 23,194 batted an eyelid.