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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
The Clare Byrne Show on Newstalk. With Aviva Insurance.
And there's plenty to talk about after a packed weekend full of sports. So it's great to be joined by Mick McCarthy from Off The Ball. Hello. Hi Clare.
How are you?
We're going to start with the Munster final. Limerick and Cork and this controversy at the end. Cork not happy that the referee blew the whistle when they had the free of their own half.
Chapter 2: What happened in the Munster final between Limerick and Cork?
Just talk us through what happened and why it was controversial.
Yeah, so there was five minutes or so of extra time, of added time added in the game, which wouldn't be unusual these days. And it certainly also wouldn't be unusual that that stoppage time takes a little bit longer and a bit more time is played on. But Limerick were a point ahead and Cork did get a free with about maybe a minute and a half extra already played.
It took a long time for a free to be taken. There was an injury there. There was some conversation with the referee, the court goalkeeper, Patrick Collins. You could see him speaking to the referee. We obviously don't know what was said in that conversation, but the sense was, do I have to go for this or do I have time to play it out?
Chapter 3: Why was the referee's decision controversial in the Munster final?
Now, what happened was Collins played it very short. Then there was another short pass played and then the final whistle went. So, yeah.
Cork were obviously outraged that they didn't get a chance to get the ball in try to get the score that they needed to bring it to extra time and there was a sort of a sense almost like an unwritten rule that like if you get the free if you're not being told by a referee this is it this is your last hit then let it play out So the ref would normally say to you play it long because this is going to be it Again there's sort of different people are saying different things but there's always just been a sense I suppose in the GAA again an unwritten rule that like if this is the last shot of the game
he'll let you know so it's about 100 yards out against the wind I don't think it was possible for him to score it was out of his range but he probably would have went for it whereas in this case he said the referee never said that to him never said it was the last hit and passed it short and then the referee called it the day Well we have a clip here of Ben O'Connor the Cork manager's assessment of what happened at the end of the game as Vic was saying the Cork players surrounded the officials so here's what Ben said I met some of the boys there and they just said they said to him I'm going off the field that he didn't tell them until the last book of the ball
I thought normally a referee would just say, this is it lads. You should call the director, but they said he didn't. Now the boys, when you say surrounded them, that's a little bit much now. They were walking alongside him. He had his team of officials alongside him, stewards, they were walking alongside him. There was no one who raised their voice to just say, why didn't you tell us?
That was the only issue the boys had. They were walking alongside him, not surrounding him. No, no, yeah. Splitting hairs. So what happens from here then on the road to Championship final day?
Like it was a huge game. There was a sense that Limerick obviously had won six Munster titles in a row up until last year where they came up against Cork and lost. So they would almost say they didn't lose. They drew the game and lost on penalties. And then they went out in the quarterfinal and I suppose shocked everybody by losing to Dublin. Yeah.
that day, and that was the end of Limerick's All-Ireland. So there was a feeling this week going in that these teams are so, there's such a rivalry between them, they're so close that this could be a body blow to the loser. It wasn't just about winning the Munster title that they could go and struggle. I don't really buy that. I think Cork are going to play awfully now in a quarterfinal.
And then if they win that, they'll play Galway, who won the Leinster title on Saturday evening in a semi-final. There's an argument, and it has been made all week, that the losers of yesterday's game probably have an easier route through to the All-Ireland. There's a very, very good chance, Clare. We saw them in the league final against each other. We saw them in the Munster round, Rob.
We saw them yesterday in the Munster final. I know we've taught this for a few years and it hasn't actually happened, but I actually can't see a way that Limerick and Cork don't meet in an All-Ireland final again this year. Their performances this year have been so far and away better than everybody that they've come up against.
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Chapter 4: What impact does the Munster final have on Limerick's championship aspirations?
Like, I mean, he went on and had three more years in the Premier League, two with Manchester United. And obviously he's looking, he was hoping to go to another World Cup here, having been to the previous, oh sorry, Denmark are out of the World Cup. These pre-World Cup friendlies are confusing me, but Denmark obviously didn't qualify.
But yeah, like even the fact that he was at the Euros a couple of years ago and so on, like that he's had this whole second half of his career after, again, we all feared the worst when we were watching live a few years ago.
Mick, thanks very much.
No worries.
We'll all be up at all hours now when the World Cup does start on Thursday.
Mick McCarthy there from Off The Ball.
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