Great hurler but it’s his physique. He’s 6 foot 6 but has the coordination of a man of 5 ft 8.
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And runs like an 800m athlete. Its not a fair fight…
And he’s aggressive…
Its a once in a lifetime mix
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Brian Ryan was one of the stars of that side and knocked around the senior panel briefly in 2020/21 iirc, came on in a few league games I think. But went completely off the radar after that.
Very nice hurler, a lovely sweet Hurler iirc. Kind of like the great Ronan Lynch.
The greatest team the game has ever known.
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Just back from Croke Park after seeing Limerick win the All-Ireland (again) and completing a historic 4-in-a-row.
Magic, magic, pure unadulterated magic. 2018 alone would have done me. Bonus territory since then. It’s just hard to comprehend really, the couple of generations who went to their grave without seeing one and then we are so lucky to be around to see this.
Very fitting and apt that it’s the Big 3 now who are the only counties to have secured the 4 timer. We tip our hats to that great Cork team of ‘41-‘44 and that amazing Kilkenny team of Shefflin, Walsh, Delaney, Larkin, Brennan and co.
Future generations will talk about Quaid, Finn, Hannon, Mulcahy, Hayes, Gillane, Morrissey and co. They’ve seen it all, they’ve won the lot. 5 Munster’s in a row, 5 AI’s in 6 years. Their greatness is assured and will stand the test of time.
The sweetest of the 5 IMO. Unreal adversity this year between injuries, lack of form, opposition teams raising their game, fatigue and everything else. But they still found a way, as great teams do. 21 scores to 7 in the second half against the greatest hurling county of them all. WOW. Our year turned on Tipp blowing it against Waterford. All of a sudden a home Munster final and the year was reignited.
Great to meet a few TFK heavy hitters in the Hill today too. The lads who were there in Tullamore in 2018 when promotion out of 1 fucking B was the height of our expectations. Delighted for those lads. And the others on here who I don’t know but trundled along to matches for many more years than me and put down many desperate years but still kept going back year after year, in blind hope more than anything else.
This era will end as quickly as it started. Fast forward five years and Cork or someone will be after reeling off two or three in a row and we’ll probably be miles from even a Munster title. The wheel is always turning. So be it. So fortunate to live through all this. I think of my grandfather who’d only have loved to be around to see it. Sin e.
Kilkenny were very gracious after, as befitting a county who have won an AI almost every four years since the foundation of the association. TJ is the GOAT.
We go again in 2024. See you all in Patsy’s in a few hours. A great day following a great team. 
in a row, kid.
Roll on the club championship.
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Shur you had no faith they could do it.
Enjoy mate
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They’re to be pitied really
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They take themselves too seriously altogether
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It’s all they have really. Bar the obvious.
That’s incredibly embarrassing. Cringe 
Between that and Shane Simpleton you’d be concerned about the level of seethe
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The Tipp crowd have genuinely been destroyed by yesterday, reading over Premier sewer was just delicious, roaring on Kilkenny to win an AI that’s where they are now, telpis
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Tipp not being involved in the big days
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I’m never taking a Tipp person who tells me Tipp and Kk is a bitter rivalry seriously again.
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We have a bitter rivalry with everyone mate.
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The Miller Shield will have an extra edge to it this year.
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Limerick have tended to perform in All-Ireland finals with this group and they found a gear yesterday that they hadn’t really found this year.
No team in the country would have lived with us for the last 25 minutes, I don’t think. That goal really sparked us into life, you could see all the players roaring at each other (not in an abusive way, in a ‘let’s get this fucking organised’ way) and they just reeled off the scores after that.
I hoped they would find that level and sustain it and while it was only 25 minutes, it was such a high level, it would win any game, I think. A bit reminiscent of the 2021 Munster final where we just blitzed the opposition.
Let’s not forget that we looked vulnerable this year. The first two games of the Munster Championship were the worst back-to-back performances in Championship in the Kiely era. We improved from there but definitely weren’t delivering sustained performances. Hannon was definitely a loss again yesterday, his ability to be the second pass on a short puckout is huge; Finn remains a huge loss even though the full-back line did well yesterday.
So to win in such style having come from a place where we have looked as weak as we ever have in Championship is nice. Really grew throughout the year, the return to fitness of Cian Lynch obviously massive and he delivered in the semi-final & final when we needed him. Hegarty was way off 2022 levels but, even still, he did get better as the year went on.
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For the life of me I can’t fathom that.
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