Another Croke Park date for John Kiely and Limerick to savour

Limerick manager John Kiely paid tribute to his panel yesterday for maintaining their standards since winning last year’s All-Ireland success, saying “all the credit goes to the players” for kicking on to reach the Allianz League final.

“If you said to me last September ‘you’ll be in the National League final come March’, I would have said ‘I don’t know about that’, because there were so many unknowns as to how things would pan out.