Kiely: Four-in-a-row factor won't define Limerick team

Only the Kilkenny class of the noughties and Cork 60 years before them managed to string four in succession.

HARD LUCK: Limerick manager John Kiely and Galway manager Henry Shefflin after the GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship semi-final match between Limerick and Galway at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

The four-in-a-row question was inevitable. More inevitable than even the outcome of the first All-Ireland semi-final after Limerick’s third-quarter suffocation act.

The post-match conversation with John Kiely was seven minutes old when the question was pucked in the Limerick manager’s direction.