Éamonn Cregan: Playing Cork twice is bad enough... now you have to beat them again and again

Never in his wildest dreams did Cregan imagine he would live to see Limerick’s current riches. Over a 10-season period, he won four Munster medals. For the county to be on the cusp of a seventh in as many years, well it’s just utopian, he says

Former Limerick hurling manager Éamonn Cregan. File picture: Liam Burke/Press 22

For a man who stresses he has no social media presence, Éamonn Cregan was surprised by how many people knew he turned 80 last month.

But having contributed to plenty of pen pics down through the years, it wasn’t going to be a secret for long just as it wasn’t for his old colleague Richie Bennis when he hit the milestone last February or Tom Ryan last August.