Tom Morrissey: Experience key in tight game triumphs

Limerick forward Tom Morrissey said that experience is the simple key ingredient in their ability to continually come out on the right side of narrow contests.

Sunday's dramatic Munster final win over Clare was the 18th time that a Limerick championship game has ended with a margin of three points or less since John Kiely took charge ahead of the 2017 season.

Incredibly, the Treaty have only lost four of those encounters, two of them in Kiely’s first season, as they completed five in-a-row in Munster and now are just two games away from a fifth Liam MacCarthy success in six seasons.

"It’s probably built over time," Morrissey told The Sunday Game after their 1-23 to 1-22 win.

"We’ve been involved in a lot of those games over the years and I think 2018 [when they won the All-Ireland with a one-point win over Galway], everything has sort of bounced since then.

"You gain confidence, we have been in that position this year alone so many times. In the last five, six, seven years, so many times as well.

"We haven’t come out the right side every day, we lost to Clare a few weeks ago by a point here in the Gaelic Grounds, we lost against Kilkenny in 2019.

"The majority of the time we still remain calm and composed coming down that home stretch. We have full belief that what we do will get us over the line."

Kiely's side looked in trouble at the interval at the TUS Gaelic Grounds as Clare led by three points and should have been further ahead only for a series of wasted opportunities in the lead up to half time.

The Ahane man disagreed, however, with the consensus that they were struggling a bit in the first half, but he did admit that they needed to raise their aggressiveness.

"We felt we were going okay, we felt we were going well. You