That was a very hard piece to copy on the phone and I lost a picture of the Dow in the process.
Apologies
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The walls are crashing in
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He wouldnât fit on the page ?
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Literally
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Shane is a lovely chap
Cc my reply on the Limerick GAA forum. Its more applicable here
Also Gerry Thorney struck the same point in IT today too. Donns tweet sums up how ridiculous the IRFUs attitude is to the club game
Turn the AIL into the Pig n Porter 
Basically 
Iâve never had a non contact training session that didnât end up in full contact or a punch up. Tag rugby is a sly way to sexually harrass women
âLimerick was the home of Munster rugby for me growing up,â former Limerick hurler Shane Dowling said, following the recent All-Ireland win. "The year (2006) they won the Heineken Cup, how many thousands of people were on OâConnell Street? Thatâs what I grew up watching.
âWhat Limerick GAA have done in the last 10 years, donât think it came with the success of the last three years, with the underage Academies - any 12-, 13-, 14-year old wants to get into that set-up knowing how good it is. Hurling is now number one in Limerick.â
Ah lovely, The Dow sowed it into them good and proper there. 
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Grab em by the pussy?
I see there is a player released from the Munster academy who played hurling 5 or 6 years ago being called straight into the tipp squad for next year
The Limerick way has spooked a lot of counties Iâd say
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How needy
regarding the limerick lads on the munster team which is a subject in the article
was the munster team ever really stocked up with Limerick men?
2008 heineken cup win you had OâConnell, Flannery, Hayes , wallace in the 15 and earls an unused sub ( 5 out of 22)
Flannery and Wallace werent Limerick natives, I reckon Munster have had around 2 or 3 Limerick lads starting on their teams generally from 2008 onwards.
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Munster released him last season. Cant understand why he wasnât giving a contract. He played minor hurling and football for tipp. Losing both AI finals that year. He also won a leinster senior Cup with Roscrea. Seriously talent. Munsters loss. Sheedy asked him to join the squad in 2019 but munster wouldnât allow it
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Always assumed those successful Munster team were full of Limerick lads
Also Iâm sure you meant to say
Paulie
Flah
The Bull
Wally
Yeah cracking player. Thought def worth a go up in Connacht or somewhere. Iâd say never got so much as a minute in first team for Minster did he?
Darragh Sweetnam of Cork was supposed to be a great hurling prospect wasnât he? Think he may have played against Wexford in the 2012 qualifier in Thurles.
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Its not an issue that they are from limerick the issue is the decline of club rugby in limerick. Underage is crippled by schools Cup tieing 40 players each for the junior and senior cups. If you take crescent SMC ASR castletroy your talking 160 players out of the playing pool at under 18.5 and under 16.5. Shannon/st Maryâs have had joint underage teams for years. A few years back you had GSOC at under 16s Garryowen Shannon and Old crescent. YM have avoided it for years bit now are struggling at under 16s and its mainly under 15s playing both age groups.
Compound that with hurling been in vogue. More games less politics and a decent structure for players. It makes an easy choice for young fellas. IRFU and munster branch are to take the blame. Letting the club vs schools fester for so long, allowing schools hoover players to supply 4 schools rather than leave 12 clubs compete at underage. The 25 guys not starting schools donât get games and the clubs canât field so no one else gets a game
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Similar in 00. Halvey, clohessy, Hayes. Foley wood and Horan all Clare. Wallace you could argue he is a corkman⌠None of the backs were from lmk