Limerick down London to secure home preliminary quarter-final in Tailteann Cup

First-half goals from Danny Neville and Paul Maher laid the platform for back-to-back Limerick wins in the Tailteann Cup, propelling them through to the preliminary quarter-finals.

Fresh off their win over Offaly, Jimmy Lee's Shannonsiders were never behind at Parnell Park and turned the screw after a tight first 20 minutes or so with the two goals.

Their fourth ever win in the tier two competition comes with the reward of a home preliminary quarter-final tie next weekend and they will find out their opposition in tomorrow evening's draw.

Cathal Downes and Peter Nash impressed for Limerick too as they saw off a London side that memorably defeated Offaly in their opening game of the campaign.

All is not lost for Michael Maher's London despite consecutive defeats with the three best third placed teams across the four groups also advancing to knock-out action.

Captain Iain Corbett returned to the Limerick lineup along with Neville while Daire Rooney and Nathan McElwaine were drafted into the London team from the side that lost to Down in Round 2.

McElwaine wore number 15 but dropped deep to shore up London's defence and, for the first 20 minutes at least, they kept pace with Limerick.

The sides were level on four occasions up to the 0-04 apiece but Limerick took over in the second quarter to put significant daylight between the teams.

Limerick pressed up hard on London's kick-outs, forcing goalkeeper Andrew Walsh to go long with most of them.

London, who had the wind, initially broke better than even under the high ball at midfield but were soon overwhelmed by the ferocity of Limerick's general play.

The aggression of that high press was mirrored throughout the field with Limerick working some impressive counter-attacks.

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