John Kiely determined to honour Dillon Quirke in Tipperary tie at Semple Stadium and calls on GAA to help find solution

John Kiely has called on the GAA to waive its decision to ban teams from promoting charities on their jerseys for the Dillon Quirke Foundation.

Limerick and Tipperary had agreed to wear special jerseys bearing the Foundation's logo for their Munster Championship clash at Semple Stadium on 21 May in memory of the Premier hurler who tragically died while playing at the same venue last August.

The Foundation has already raised hundreds of thousands of euro to be put towards screening every GAA player from the age of 12 upwards for sudden adult death syndrome.

Limerick manager Kiely revealed the idea first arose last year, with the jerseys worn during the match to be auctioned as a fundraiser, until the GAA announced its ban in the past fortnight.

"Firstly, I met Dan Quirke [Dillon’s father] last November. We discussed doing something. We were all very much of the mind that we would like to help in whatever way we could, make a contribution in whatever way we could to the Foundation.

"This concept was put forward that the Foundation emblem would be put on the jersey for that one game between ourselves and Tipperary. We had agreed to do that. We were very happy to do that. And that afterwards the jerseys would be handed back to the Foundation for them to auction – that was the concept.

"Clearly, it has run into a difficulty now, because of the particular rule it might be in breach of. That’s disappointing.

"We’d still be very much open to finding a way of helping the Foundation acknowledge what they are trying to do, and honour Dillon’s passion and his life, which was hurling.

"I feel his situation is that little bit unique in that he died playing the game that he loved, on one of the most hallowed surfaces of all in Semple Stadium.

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