Will it track it into Row Z?
I see your angle🤞
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Its not perfect but I assume they’ve resolved that issue now 
The new colours just don’t sit right with me at all.
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2-0 to Treaty
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2-1 full time. 
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WE ARE GOING UP!
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There should really be a poll for all those lads that will be crying their eyes out at relegation time in a few months
Can’t get relegated from the first division 
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It’s never stopped them before 
The Limerick Franchise won’t be beaten on the field. Only the Revenue commissioners are a match for us.
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Lure of Treaty United was too much to turn down
Last year’s League of Ireland can be remembered for plenty of reasons – Shamrock Rovers’ unbeaten season, the climax to the First Division and subsequent ‘trophy-watch’, and an equally exciting FAI Cup final.
For football fans in Limerick and the mid-west, none of those will top the list of talking points from the 2020 campaign. Instead, it was the absence of a local presence in the league for the first time since the 1937-38 season .
Two years ago, Limerick FC folded following a last-place finish in the First Division, after a 26-point deduction for entering into examinership.
In the interim, the newly-formed Treaty United have taken their place and acquired the precious 10th spot in this season’s second tier ahead of both Shamrock Rovers II and Dublin County.
After a short notice period of acceptance, manager Tommy Barrett hastily assembled a 26-man squad for the new club’s maiden outing.
Among the new signings was defender Jack Lynch, one of the key men in Galway United’s surge to the First Division play-off final in November.
Despite that run, which he admits was the most enjoyable time he has had as a footballer, the lure of Treaty United was too much to turn down for a variety of reasons.
“It definitely wasn’t an easy call. It wasn’t like a five-minute thing. I went up and spoke to John Caulfield in person and we had a couple of chats on the phone,” 23-year-old Lynch explains.
“I was talking to Tommy at the same time and the rumblings were that Treaty United were pretty much odds-on to get a licence. That played into it as well.”
Working with Barrett in Limerick’s underage structure was one reason why the pull was strong, his role as a manufacturing engineer in Castletroy-based Edwards Life Sciences was another. Most important of all, was the family ties to the previous guises of Limerick football.
A son of former Limerick player and manager Tommy, who also had spells with Sunderland and Shrewsbury Town, and cousin of Lee J, the latest Lynch addition grew up surrounded by the game.
“It’s a serious honour to be involved in the first of anything. To be involved in the first squad that Treaty will put out in the League of Ireland is a big thing. I have my own connections to it, my dad would have started off with Limerick,” he adds.
“He’d still go there nearly every Friday they were at home. I know the likes of Duggie’s (Shane Duggan) dad was there as well. He would have played for Limerick when they were flying high.
“It means a lot to not just the people who played during the glory days but your normal fan, that would have been their Friday night, heading up to the Markets Field, to get football back in the region.”
And it’s another of the city’s footballing heroes that has led to Lynch wearing No 44 this season for the new club, his initial choice of four is retired in honour of Limerick’s late 1979-80 league-winning captain Joe O’Mahony, a gesture Treaty were keen to maintain.
However, he admits that he naively chose the number without realising it had been stood down, leading to an interesting conversation at home.
“We were asked what numbers we wanted and I replied with four. Others picked throughout the day and my second choice, 16, was gone, too. Later that night, the gaffer texted me and said, ‘look, they want to keep four retired’. I didn’t know it had been retired.