I never felt Walsh Park suited this team but Waterford have almost looked spooked by the pressure of having to play at home. For the All-Ireland champions to be knocked out, in front of their home crowd, by Clare, would be complete doomsday scenario stuff. The dynamic is slightly different now in that Clare still have another chance but this is old-school knockout stuff for Limerick. READ MORE Dublin succeed in overturning Paul Mannion ban ahead of Leinster semi-finalLimerick will be pumped to the gills but the Clare boys will be psyched up to their eyeballs. The flipside to that argument though, is that the Byrnes situation underlines the massive depth which Limerick have, and Clare don’t.

Source: Irish Examiner June 07, 2019 23:03 UTC