Treaty legend Éamonn Cregan on current crop: ‘I have great time for this team’

Éamonn Cregan is looking through a window in the Hunt Museum Café, out at the Shannon running away with itself, a dull August afternoon rising merely to scurries, writes PM O’Sullivan

I am surprised when he begins talking with fervour about this area of Limerick. Cregan gestures with his right hand: “Out there, it was all tenement buildings, all the way up Patrick Street. I am talking about the late 1950s, maybe the early 1960s. Arthur’s Quay as well. And eventually the houses fell out onto the street.”