Treaty must get ‘heads right’, warns midfielder Lynch

“Getting the heads right” will be crucial if Limerick are to buck the dreadful All-Ireland semi-final record of recent Munster champions, according to Treaty midfielder Cian Lynch. Limerick’s reward for their Munster final thumping of Tipperary is a four-week layoff, a welcome break following five games in six weeks.

The month off isn’t quite as long as the five weeks afforded to provincial winners under the old format, but Limerick will be keenly aware of how many of the teams who went before them failed to back up Munster success with an All-Ireland title. The Tipperary class of 2016 are the only side since John Allen’s Cork in 2005 to follow Munster silverware with All-Ireland glory. More damning still is the eight years since a Munster Championship winning county won their subsequent All-Ireland semi-final, this being when Tipperary overcome Dublin in 2011.