John Mullane

And then Connolly, to take the goal so well was probably a massive turning point.

And even from Connolly's point of view, you know, he had a very, very good day on the freeze yesterday.

I think he scored seven out of the eight place balls.

You obviously spoke about it there.

I mean...

the only downside to such a good performance, you know, I would say a good performance after the first 20 minutes is that injury to Kieran Joyce.

I mean, we haven't heard anything yet, but lads, if...

If he's out for a considerable amount of time, he's going to be a colossal of a loss.

Patrick Collins, lads, made a fantastic save, a crucial save on Peter Casey going through.

And, you know, he gave the assist then for...

for Hayes to set up to set up Connolly yeah look they just just overall even Barrett you know was back to himself Fitzgibbon obviously picked up man of the match Barry Welch gave a obviously didn't register a score but gave a real workmanlike performance and they made fields pair and they're really really starting to grow on me you know real just kind of

dogs work well able to hurl well able to mix it Tommy O'Connell and Tim O'Mahony and the defence

there were shaky early doors they got to grips with it and as I spoke about there a few minutes ago and Owen Downie great credit has to go to Downie you know to be able to to go into that thinking mode right I'm going to push Garrod Hegarty back the way rather me going back the way and he picked off a great score and you know they're in a great place now they're in a great place they've four points out of four they now have Limerick on the head to head

they've won foot in the in the Munster final and I think Ben O'Connor you know going off his his emotions and his celebrations after the match I think there's a realisation that hey this is a this is a massive step taken for this car group you know in 2026 and a massive step taken

in trying to push on and win a Munster Championship and a Munster Championship final that mightn't have Limerick in it for the first time since 2018 because you know if Limerick were to lose the weekend that's Limerick totally ruled out of picking up Munster honours so to see it as a great opportunity of winning silverware and winning the Munster Championship

lads deserve plaudits when they do a good job and not only criticism when they do a bad job yeah no and look coming to the closing closing closing quarter the match you know limit supporters we're getting excited car supporters we're getting excited

We've seen time and time again, lads, this fixture is probably the hardest fixture to referee in GAA.

Look, probably the only one I would maybe question, and probably Kylie and Conor kind of got a little bit of a sense, was the one near the end that I think Coleman...

held on the ball for a considerable amount of time he got the it could have very easily been a limerick three and I think was it was he got fouled then and then that was the award the awarding of the free then to the Cork and that was the one on the sideline where Condie a bit similar to the one against Tipperary down in Turlist the previous week stood up and put the ball over the bar

Looking back, I mean, he got the sending off.