Cork bundle in a goal after Ruari Deane waltzes through the middle. Donal OâSullivan in a bad way, sub needed.
Gave away a couple of very soft scores just before half-time, coupled with Hughie missing that free.
Moving the ball too slowly. Big ask to claw back that gap in such a low-scoring game.
Needed more lucky breaks to get closer. Dannyâs goal chance was the one
Was Donal Sulâs replacement deemed a temporary sub under the new head injury rule?
Otherwise we used full 6 subs - Aaron OâSullivan, Brian Donovan, Killian Ryan, James Naughton, Paul Maher & Josh Ryan.
Donovan, K.Ryan & Naughton all made good impacts. The starting half -forward line were poor and all were replaced. Darragh Treacy put in a fair shift but looked knackered near the end.
As has been said, Nevilleâs chance needed to hit the net to give us hope, but I was sitting in the Cork section and most of them were bemoaning an inevitable trimming from Kerry.
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That was frustrating.
The goal was a sickner, and then missing those scoreable frees meant we should have been much closer at half time.
Dannyâs goal chance was the key moment, youâd have put your house on him to stick it.
The subs made a good impact off the bench but you feel Cork were only doing the minimum by then. They could easily have ran in a couple of goals. They are at nothing really.
Highlight was Darragh Tracey absolutely creaming the Cork half back with that shoulder.
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We had two goal chances, and we needed to take at least one of them to give us a chance.
Adrian Enright had two men inside with only one Cork defender, and he delayed, and ended up kicking a horrific wide off his left.
Danny then had his chance; if he was coming from the left corner inside, heâd probably have buried it but going with his right foot across goal was always a difficult opportunity.
Once we started hunting goals only, we were never going to win. We gave it a good oul go in the third quarter but just not clinical enough. The four or five points in a row before half-time was the real killer, it was a gap we were never able to close.
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Thank jaysus that the end of spending money on the footballers
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How about the end of season party?
If there is a trough being filled the county board love sticking their snouts into a good feed.
18th of August
Head for the Woodlands
Very muted build up to Sunday.
Anyways, Limerick v Tipperary Munster final memoriesâŚ
1996 I was knee high to a grasshopper and only had a terrace ticket, we had a clubman on the gate and my father managed to sneak me into the stand. The bemused steward wasnât given much time to react. 
Watched it on the steps of the Mackey. Dead and buried at the break. Inch by inch, point by point we reeled them in. The noise from the crowd rose and rose as the deficit narrowed. The crescendo was Frankie firing over the equaliser. The lad behind the goal, on the pitch, jumping up and down punching the air as it sails over just added to it.
We never losing the replay as Owen OâNeill kicked us to glory. A fairly paltry points tally but the four goals was sufficient. Great trip home that night.
2001 One that really got away. Can remember the deathly silence up in the terrace as Declan Ryan kicked a goal into the roof of the net. Just couldnât get level with them when we went toe to toe all game long. The quarter final loss to Wexford was another kick in the balls. Summed Limerick up in that era from around 98/99 to around 2004/2005. Lost so many tight games around then by a puck of a ball or after a replay.
2019 Quaidâs save from Callanan, a goal then would have narrowed the gap to 3. As it was the champions kicked on and won in a canter for a finish. Town was hopping after. Glory days.
Kiely and Kinnerk mugged Teneo Sheedy off good and proper last year. Hayes to wing back and Lynch to centre forward completely bamboozled them. Do Limerick stick or twist? Throw them again by putting Lynch back to midfield? Unlikely, Iâd imagine. Dan Morrissey impressed when brought on against Cork but it would be harsh to drop English or Nash.
Gillane and Tom Morrissey didnât fire either but canât see either being left out unless their training form has gone off a cliff. Would guess itâll be an unchanged team from the last day.
As for Tipp, itâs still the tried and trusted. B Maher, P Maher, Callanan, N McGrath still all there from 2009 and 2010. Limerick match up well against the like of the McGrathâs who arenât overly physical or pacy. Thereâll be a huge reliance on McCormack and Breen to ask as disrupters but also muck in with scores and assists.
With good weather it should hopefully be a scorcher in the finest of Munster final traditions, the ticket situation is cuntish - and youâd wonder if a move to Croke Park would have been considered/worthwhile - but no point talking about it now.
Lucky enough to have bagged one. Canât wait for it now. The Courtyard on Sober Lane for a drink or bite to eat before hand and then the long walk out. Magic. Cork is always a great venue for a big match.
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You should have been there for the 1981 comeback from 14 pointd down
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Forecast for 24 degrees. Sweltering heat 
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Are we sure we still need the sweltering heat? In our hip and whip days where you let the ball do the work maybe but under Kiely and Kinnerkâs more methodical plan, big men working through the lines up and down the field?
Limerick never feared the sun.
Hail, Rain, Snow, Storm, Heatwave, it matters not to this absolutely fantastic Limerick side. The best hurlers hurl in any weather, and weâll show that once again on Sunday.
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24 degrees isnât sweltering heat. I suspect it will be sweltering down in the bowl though.
The Pairc is aleays ten degrees hotter