Ambitious Limerick FC looking beyond simply staying in the Premier Division

It’s pretty safe to say that there’s virtually nothing Martin Russell doesn’t know about the promotion/relegation rollercoaster.

In July 2014, he left his post as assistant to Liam Buckley at St Patrick’s Athletic to replace Stuart Taylor as manager at Limerick, and succeeded in guiding his new club to mid-table safety in the Premier Division.

But just the following year Limerick went down in the most dramatic circumstances, their 2-1 aggregate play-off defeat to Finn Harps a shock ending to a campaign in which it seemed that, right up until the final act of the final night, the ’Super Blues’ were going to pull off a great escape from relegation.