Championship on the horizon, can anyone stop Limerick?

On July 17th 2022 Limerick became All Ireland Senior Hurling Champions wining their fourth title in five years; it was the joint highest scoring final in history and the earliest an All-Ireland Senior Hurling Final has ever been played.

Since then we've had some brilliant club championships up and down the country with some historic and emotional wins, maybe no more so in my own county where Kilruane won the county final in Semple Stadium, the place where only a few months previous Dillon Quirke drew his last breath doing what he loved most, playing hurling for his club Clonoulty Rossmore against the same team, Kilruane.

We saw Ballyhale reclaim their throne as club champions and cement themselves as the most decorated club in GAA History and hurling teams from Sligo and Mayo pushing teams from Limerick and Cork to the pin of their collar to win All Ireland Club Hurling titles.

The split season is working, I’m all for it, allowing inter-county players some down time after their inter-county season finishes and allowing GAA people to plan weddings for the summer months and go on a summer holiday actually during the summer safe in the knowledge the fixtures have been made and will be played when they’re supposed to be.

If you were lucky enough to be involved in a club who had a successful run in their championship the winter was short for you, with dinner dances, bringing the cup here and there and that magical feeling to keep you warm knowing your place has done something special this year.

But we always had that longing to get back to the inter-county championship and after a nine month layoff we are back again.

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