Ben O’Connor: Cork must use pace and hurling to avoid an arm wrestle with Limerick

It’s a different Limerick style to O’Connor’s time and Cork can’t take them on at their own game

Cork's Ben O'Connor on the ground with TJ Ryan of Limerick during their 2004 clash. Picture: Gerard McCarthy

The memory is still sharp.

Twenty years ago Limerick slipped Cork in the Munster championship in Páirc Uí Chaoimh, and when Ben O’Connor stopped in Charleville on his way home after that game, the stream of L-reg cars going home through north Cork didn’t spare him.