McGrath: Clare left too much behind them against Limerick

Clare can feel aggrieved about not being awarded a late free but they had enough chances to win yesterday's Munster final against Limerick.

That was the view of Shane McGrath, speaking on the RTÉ GAA Podcast.

Social media was buzzing last night with footage from an incident late on in the game where Tony Kelly appeared to have been on the end of a frontal charge from Limerick's Peter Casey.

The free wasn't given, and the Treaty men held on to claim the five in a row of Munster titles.

"The big thing for me is not the free at the end," McGrath said.

"While it was a free, where Clare lost this, there were two periods of play. Before half time they're going through and Ryan Taylor misses a point. It was 1-11 to 0-10 at the time.

"Then he's going through again and, maybe he doesn't have the confidence to take on the shot, and he pops it out to Mark Rodgers.

"He goes for the goal, and rightly so, but let's say they go over the bar and it's 1-13 to 0-10. What happens is it gets saved - brilliant save - and they [Limerick] go up the field and they go in at half time 1-11 to 0-11.

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"That's one stage. The second stage is when it was 1-20 to 1-19, they had three shots at the goal. Tony Kelly dropped one short and Davy Fitz had a wide.

"While they could say the free at the end, they were hard done by, and it was a free, they shouldn't dwell on that too much.

"They can say that they had chances to win the game, we just didn't take them. Take the positives out of it, the learnings out of it, and move onto an All-Ireland quarter final."

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