Seamus Flanagan: ‘You have your family in the setup, you have your family at home. They intertwine’

Five in a row? 'You can bury your head in the sand and say that we're not going to speak about it, but you're going to hear it. It's the elephant in the room'

FAMILY SETUP: Limerick's Seamus Flanagan finds the perfect blend between family life and hurling family life. Pic: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

A minute before the half-time whistle Seamus Flanagan materialised near the Cork endline, trapped in a corner with no clear sight of the posts. He looked across the field and somehow saw Cian Lynch in a dot of space. The pass was perfect. A thrilling semi-final had its first goal.

Limerick went from two down to one up as they headed in for the break. That was Flanagan’s first senior outing in Croke Park. He hasn’t suffered defeat there as he missed out on the Kilkenny 2019 semi-final loss.