Limerick Clare Waterford Cork in Croke Park

limerick v clareCork v waterfordLimerick 1-23 Clare 1-16It was Limerick's Andrew O'Shaughnessy who stole the show in this match with Clare today in Croke Park contributing a personal scoreline of 11 pts,Shocks as the supporters call him was in irresistible form as he led Limerick to the All-Ireland semi-finals. He silenced many of his doubters today indeed ,he also got a good supply of the ball which helped his cause.Limerick will be very happy with their seven-point win over their great Munster rivals and Neighbours Clare at Croke Park today.Bragging rights tomorrow in the work places will be Limerick's this time,It atones somewhat for their trouncing by Clare last year.Their was a lot of frustation evident within the Clare support judging by some of the comments as they vented their anger towards their players,Clare played well but were lacking ,showing signs of inexperience in certain quarters. Diarmuid McMahon missed a sitter in front of the Limerick goal early on ,it could have made a difference..It was of 0-11 to 0-7 at half time for Limerick looking more comfortable with their defence well on top,commanding clearances from Brian Geary.People were saying during the break ,would Clare turn up for the Second Half as they felt the match was slipping away from them .It got worse for Clare as Limerick ran up a lead of 1-14 to 0-11 .Clare stage a mini revival and came within 3 pts of Limerick,there were anxious faces in the Limerick support.Points from Andrew O Shaughnessy and James O Brien relieved any of this and in the end Limerick ran out easy winners.Limerick can now look forward to the Semi-Final .For Clare ,That great old warrior Colin Lynch gave it his all for Clare today,the loss of more experienced players like Lynch could be a major blow to Tony Considines rebuilding plans for the future.A comment I would make from been there was ,there was never that intensity of battle in the Limerick Clare match or nowhere did the atmosphere match those games with Tipp and the final with Waterford.It was quiet I felt with the support without been offensive.The vast expanses of Croke Park may contribute to that.I have to commend Croke Park ,it's facility is so accessible as I had my son in a wheelchair with me today for the first time.It's a world class facility.LIMERICK: B Murray; D Reale, S Lucey, S Hickey; M O'Riordan, B Geary, M Foley; D O'Grady (0-1), M O'Brien; M Fitzgerald (0-4), O Moran (0-1), N Moran; A O'Shaughnessy (0-11), B Begley, K Tobin (0-2).SUBS: D Ryan (1-2) (for N Moran), B Foley (0-1) (for M Fitzgerald), J O'Brien (0-1) (for K Tobin), P Lawlor (for M O'Brien).CLARE: P Brennan; G O'Grady, F Lohan, K Dilleen; J McInerney, B Bulger (0-2), A Markham; B O'Connell, C Lynch (0-2); D O'Rourke (0-3), D McMahon (1-2), J Clancy (0-3); N Gilligan (0-4), B Nugent, B Gaffney.SUBS: D O'Connell (for B Gaffney).REFEREE: M Wadding (Waterford).ATTENDANCE: 72,426.Waterford 3-16 Cork 3-16 A Thriller http://www.bebo.com/Profile.js... limerick hurling sitewww.limerickblogger.org check gaa in the search engine.

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