Gearóid Hegarty: 'What a great time to be a Limerick hurler'

For Hegarty, this really feels like hurling again, like living. Summer days, noisy crowds, Championship fever.

WATCHING FROM A DISTANCE: #HurlingToTheCore ambassador Gearóid Hegarty, pictured alongside the Twomey family from Ahane, who star in this year’s second series of Bord Gáis Energy’s GAAGAABox, which features the most passionate hurling fans across the country filmed in their front-rooms as they experience the agony and ecstasy of following their counties’ fortunes from home. Picture: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

As Limerick’s remarkable Munster final comeback gathered momentum early in the second half, Gearóid Hegarty suddenly started laughing at the chaos of it all.

Seamus Flanagan had just bundled his goal and the release of energy from the crowd gave Hegarty the sense of almost being lifted clean off his feet.