Limerick’s Cian Lynch upholding proud family tradition

With not a scintilla of embarrassment or prompting, Cian Lynch regales you with the story of what happened to him the time his uncle Ciaran Carey fired over one of hurling’s most iconic scores. 

Lynch might only have been five months and 14 days old that day Limerick knocked out the All-Ireland champions Clare, but he’s been told ample times what he was doing at the very moment.

“The mother (Valerie) always tells a great story,” he smiles. “Ciaran got a point against Clare to win the match. I was only born in ’96 and I was on her breast, taking milk, and she threw me up. She forgot to catch me! I don’t remember that now!”