In John Quane’s triangle victory over Cork will always mean the most

“Our club is in that triangle surrounded by the two other counties. As somebody once said, you could kick a football into Cork and puck a sliotar into Tipperary.”

Limerick’s John Quane in the 1999 Munster SFC semi-final against Cork at Páirc Uí Rinn. In 2003, Limerick beat Cork in Quane’s fourth match in championship against the Rebels. Picture: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Bragging rights went the way of John Quane in Mitchelstown last Saturday as Limerick dismissed Cork to reach a third straight Munster senior hurling final.

Watching the game in the yard of his cousin John Cleary’s Walsh’s Bar, he wasn’t piping up too much about it. Not because he was on enemy soil but because the job is only half done.