What?Lads playing junior that could play senior if they wanted,no way 
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Played underage with Claughaun and was on the extended Limerick U21 panel that won the 2015 All-Ireland. Transferred to Clonlara or Parteen, where the family live.
Brother of Connacht fly-half and former Limerick minor, Conor and Stephen, who was with Munster and Connacht for a few seasons before retiring through injury.
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A junior hurler is just a senior hurler who couldnāt be arsed
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I hadnāt seen him play in quite a while but from what I saw of him this year, he wouldnāt be a rocket. But your typical half-back, a nice hurler, good striker of the ball, decent head on his shoulders, and strong under a high ball.
Iād say heāll definitely start for them in that line somewhere, which will free somebody to move someplace else.
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Youāve obviously never been drinking in the coach in till 3 am in the morning and turned up the next morning at a junior b half cut only to find yourself playing full forward being marked by a certain Ciaran Carey.
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One of those players @ciarancareyshurlingarmy refers to is a player who would always have been considered a junior player and played senior player.
I would agree with him that there are some younger fellas on their junior team who are better hurlers; although whether they are better corner-backs, I donāt know.
They signed a few new fellas this year anyway and may do a bit of re-jigging to get one or two of those younger fellas on the senior team.
Carrig is one of the better 3s in the county.
I just wonder would he get opened up by the pace some of the top teams have in their full-forward line?
James ? The askeaton man canāt commit as far as I know. He played plenty senior when he was young.
So what was the greatest Munster hurling championship ever, Kev?
https://twitter.com/movementcoachkm/status/1742251293601857705
2001
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The best Munster championships were back in the knockout days
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From Pairc Ui Chaoimh to Pairc Ui Chaoimh to Pairc Ui Chaoimh to Pairc Ui Chaoimh, there was drama the length and breadth of Munster.
Of the four games in 2001, Iād rank only Limerick v Waterford as a genuine classic game. Cork v Limerick had lots of tension and a classic post-match interview and lots of Diarmuid OāSullivan scoring from 100 (probably 85) yards, but it was hardly a genuine classic. Neither was Tipp v Clare for all its big gameness. Tipp v Limerick was not knockout.
1987 and 1991 are two of the few contenders I can think of. There were a lot of draws in 1987, but probably not that much in the way of quality.
1991 had Cork and Tipp and that was it.
Notwithstanding concerns about the format and the timing, I think as a total package 2023 was considerably ahead of all of the above.
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2018 deserves a token mention too. Was full of drama and incident.
A lot of which involved Tipperary, who didnāt qualify. Similarly in 2023, much of the drama surrounded Cork, who didnāt qualify. The round robin format seems to either catch fire or flop completely.
2019 was woejus. 2022 not much better.
2018 was hopeless stuff. There were two dead rubbers to finish.
2023 was harmless enough too except for the Cork v Limerick de facto knockout clash.
The Tipp v Limerick game effectively meant nothing after the Clare v Cork game earlier in the afternoon and as has been mentioned Waterford were effectively a non entity.
Odd that a Corkman would believe the time when they are at their most shit and gutless would be the worse time ever
Very surprising
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If Tipp had beaten a wounded Limerick team they were effectively out of the championship I believe?
Nope. Not at all once Clare beat Cork.
If Cork had beaten Clare it would have been different, but they didnāt.
Iconic. The first one I remember. I think every game was decided by a margin of 3 points or less? The finality to the Clare v Tipp and Limerick v Cork games was unreal. Dripping in suspense. Limerick were viewed as All-Ireland material by the media at one stage that summer. Then they lost to a Wexford team reeling from the Leinster Final mauling.
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