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I may have followed on a transistor radio from the Electric Picnic camp site – when all-Ireland final Sunday clashed with such events – but I know Brian Cody’s men showed no mercy. “Not only are we coming in as underdogs but we were not considered to have any chance of being in the All-Ireland final this year up to a few weeks ago. Somebody told me we were 12/1 after Cork beat us in the league semi-final so that wouldn’t suggest there were great expectations for us to get there. Have I got the capacity to deliver what I would expect from myself?'" Colm Lyons will be the man in the middle tomorrow afternoon. And experience helps there as well.”
FIFTEEN years have sped by since Limerick and Kilkenny last met in an All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final.
Subs: Niall Moran for M O’Brien, James O’Brien, Pat Tobin , Kevin Tobin, Mark O’Riordan Lawlor (68). Limerick: A O’Shaughnessy 0-7 (6f, 1’65), O Moran 1-3, D O’Grady 0-2, S O’Connor, M Fitzgerald, N Moran 0-1 each. The ’07 Championship finished with our own O’Shaughnessy as top scorer on 2-46, followed by Kilkenny’s Henry Shefflin (1-45) and Damien Murray of Offaly with 3-38.