Cyril Farrell at Dalo Live: 'You have to realise how lucky you are to grow up in a hurling county'

Having seen old Galway teams not hurt enough in defeat, Cyril remembered once vowing if he ever took the reins he’d at the very least, if they lost, have them crying over it

The panelists and sponsor at Dalo’s Hurling Show Live, from the Castletroy Hotel in Limerick. From left, Mark Landers, TJ Ryan, Irish Examiner Sports journalist Maurice Brosnan, Anthony Daly, Derek Greaney (event sponsor rep), Cyril Farrell and Patrick Horgan. Pic: Noel Sweeney

Cyril Farrell never took a backward step and he went into the lion’s den to make Galway’s case on Wednesday night as the Dalo Live roadshow stopped off for a bumper All-Ireland preview at the Castletroy Park Hotel in Limerick.

Cyril, who steered Galway to three All-Irelands, hopes there are some kind of reverse omens in this two’s meeting in the final eight years ago that began Limerick’s reign of terror.