John Downing: We’ve been spoiled, but this Limerick team have given us fans a future and we owe them for that

Clare v Limerick - Munster GAA Hurling Senior Championship Final...9 June 2024; Limerick players celebrate with their supporters after the Munster GAA Hurling Senior Championship final match between Clare and Limerick at FBD Semple Stadium in Thurles, Tipperary. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile...ABC

John Downing

Sunday afternoon and on Jones’ Road, I crossed a very genial former TD who politely – maybe even sincerely – sympathised with me on the loss incurred by my much-beloved Limerick hurlers.

Cork, I was thinking just then: Why did the Black and Tans not bring more petrol when they were at it back in December 1920? What incompetents history has shown them to be, in this and many other things.