Youâve been very restrained in fairness.
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Well itâs not like we lit up the championship this year and went out in a blaze of glory
Limerick 2017
Played 6 tier one games.
Lost 5 (Wexford 3, Galway 3, Galway 10, Clare 4, Kilkenny 3)
Won 1 (Cork 2).
Grade; Fail.
Itâs always at its darkest before the dawn
Iâm half Limerick sure
He should have travelled with the Limerick squad regardless.
He was togged and took part in the warm-up.
How could he be in two places at once?
He must have been on good time. He was wearing number 27.
I think the tournament in Thurles was on at 10am and the Limerick match 7pm, which would have prevented any biophysical conundrums arising.
Limerick âfully awareâ of Byrnes club hurling action hours before Kilkenny qualifier:
Jerome OâConnell Limerick Leader Sport
EYEBROWS have been raised among Limerick hurling supporters with confirmation that Diarmaid Byrnes lined out with his club Patrickswell on Saturday morning.
The 2015 All Ireland U-21 winning captain played two games for âThe Wellâ in the Tom Semple Senior Hurling Festival in Thurles, hours before Limerickâs All Ireland SHC Qualifier against Kilkenny.
Limerick hurling manager John Kiely confirmed this Monday afternoon that Byrnesâ club action was âpart of his return to play protocol with a view to hopefully having him back for next weekendâ.
The inspirational wing back sustained a knee injury in late April and missed Limerickâs Munster SHC loss to Clare on June 4.
Byrnes did return to action in round two of the Limerick SHC when starting for Patrickswell in their 4-23 to 0-9 win over Knockainey on June 11. He played 37-minutes of that game in Bruff.
However, the Limerick manager revealed that Byrnes suffered a new injury in county training on Thursday June 22 â injuring his posterior cruciate ligament (PCL).
He therefore wasnât deemed sufficiently match fit to named in Limerickâs 26-man panel for Saturdayâs crucial backdoor game with Brian Codyâs Cats in Nowlan Park.
The Tom Semple Senior Hurling Festival forms part of the Thurles Sports Festival and took place early last Saturday in Morris Park and the âback fieldâ in Semple Stadium.
Byrnes and indeed fellow inter-county man Aaron Gillane, played in the Patrickswell games against Holycross-Ballycahill and Midleton.
Neither were part of the 26-man Limerick panel confirmed by Limerick manager John Kiely on Thursday night. Limerick vice-captain Byrnes along with fellow vice-captain Gearoid Hegarty were injury doubts ahead of the Kilkenny game - Hegarty did start and played 45-minutes, scoring two first half points.
The games in the Thurles tournament were 15-minutes a-side and Byrnes played two full games - an hour of hurling.
Byrnes and Gillane later joined up with the Limerick panel and togged out in Nowlan Park and took part in the warm-up routine under coach Paul Kinnerk, wearing the number 27 and 28 jerseys - albeit neither were officially part of the matchday panel.
Na Piarsaigh also played in the Thurles tournament. Ronan Lynch, another member of the extended Limerick hurling panel, played with Na Piarsaigh, who reached the final - losing to Holycross-Ballycahill.
Himself and Gillane both took full part in the warmup and there were murmurs around the ground that both had made the bench. Which obviously turned out to be false.
John Kiely is totally out of his depth.
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Amateur hour
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John 
Kiely.
Probably and with good cause
"Return to play protocols "
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If he picked up a PCL injury on June 22nd (after being out with a separate injury for weeks), what the fuck was he doing playing in a tournament the bones of a week later ffs
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one of the formulas on one of Kinnerks spreadsheets made the decision
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