Maurice Brosnan: Are Limerick the greatest team of all time? This performance strengthens the case

A GREAT TEAM: Tom Morrissey of Limerick is tackled by Alan Murphy of Kilkenny during the GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship final match between Kilkenny and Limerick at Croke Park in Dublin. Pic: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

TITLES on the line. That is the plain significance with finals. They will be remembered for something or someone. Every moment is agonisingly laced with that reality. Every play carries the leaden weight of history.

Who or what will this game be remembered for? Limerick already enjoyed their breakthrough final, the Covid final, at least one Cian Lynch final and a Gearóid Hegarty final. On Drumcondra Road before throw-in Shannonsiders wondered would it be Hegarty again. Sodden black and amber gravitated away from watering hole queues to the covered bridge outside Drumcondra Station. They carried with them clinking bags and amplifying hopes. The dream was Eoin Cody or TJ Reid or Adrian Mullen’s name in headlines. That today would be their day.