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Extended finals preview | Limerick’s hunger v Cork’s tactics | Can Galway go the full 70? | Mailbag ✉️
03 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What are the highlights of the upcoming Munster final between Cork and Limerick?
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Chapter 2: What factors contribute to Limerick's historical success in finals?
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We have the Munster and Leinster Harlem Finals as well as the Curtain Razor on Saturday. The Joe McDonagh Final between Leash and Carlo. And we're going to get stuck into it all now with John and Pat. Kind of a low-key build-up, lads. But as Pat says there, we'll get stuck into it now. And if no one else is going to build it up, we'll build it up.
Absolutely. Look, Munster final week. It can't be, it can't be. I suppose, look, it's, for me, it's the second biggest day of the year after the All-Ireland final.
Look, obviously, you'll probably disagree in Leinster, but... Ah, no, no, I'm man enough to say that, like, Munster has more history than the Leinster Championship.
Chapter 3: How do Cork's tactics compare against Limerick's strengths?
There's no point in saying any different. It does. Ah, look, it's just a wonderful occasion and...
I suppose, yeah. I suppose, look, we probably... It's mad to think that after this weekend we've only five games left and, you know, in two weeks... you know, the schools won't even finish up the primary schools and we'll have three matches left. So, for me, I think it's been a lacklustre championship today, bar one or two, bar one or two games.
So, I think this weekend, I think we're in bad need of a really good weekend of hurling across the three matches.
Isn't it great though, when you say that, it's three games that are hard to call as well. So, you'd imagine there'd be a couple of belters thrown in there.
Yeah, extremely difficult to call and we'll delve into that now in a few minutes. But look, for me, Cork, Limerick, on the banks of the league, top two in the game right now. really, really whets the appetite. I don't think we, you know, there's massive air excitement around the place.
Look, from a promotional point of view, I think it's a bit disappointing that, you know, this game hasn't been built up.
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Chapter 4: Can Galway's squad deliver a complete performance against Dublin?
And I suppose week after week, it probably doesn't allow that. But I'm hoping that from, you know, Wednesday on that you know this game will be really built up along with the other two games Galway and Dublin and the Joe McDonagh final with Leash and Caro but it's set up as I would say it's set up beautifully lads you know Limerick going down
For me, I'd say they're going down to the banks of the Lee, trying to, you know, beat Cork in their home ground, trying to achieve something that I don't think has ever been achieved by any Limerick team before. And that's beating Cork in a Munster final on their home soil. I can go back to the last two occasions, 1992. Limerick were league champions. I was at that match myself.
Watford played in the minor match before against Tipperary. Paul Flynn. Famously, you have the picture at the presentation, don't you, in 92? Well, that was the league final and we were getting excited for the Munster final. Paul Flynn gave an unbelievable performance in the minor. Horton Razor before, he scored three sixths
against I don't know it was a 3-3 he scored against Tipperary it was a draw and in that match after then the senior final the famous one where I think Thomas Mulcahy I think he hand passed the ball into the back of the net Cork won that one then in 2014 I was on radio duties that day
Chapter 5: What are the implications of the Joe McDonagh Cup final for Carlow and Laois?
Limerick going for a back-to-back two in a row after winning the previous year, 2013, up in the Gaelic rounds, if my memory serves me correct. I mean, we've seen, you know, the scenes after that match when Limerick won, they were going down then to try and beat Cork and achieve back-to-back. It was the last game in the old Parkey queef. And Park got the job done.
And speaking of minor games, it was the second year in a row Limerick and Watford met in the minor, wasn't it? Two great games in both years. Fantastic games. First year was a draw. Second year, Limerick came back from a big
Limerick came back again in 2014 a lot of fellas that went on to play you know would be playing on Sunday and a lot of fellas that played at Watford still playing this year so these damn curtain raisers were great just when you mentioned about the Paul Flynn one there in 2014 Keane Lynch was Limerick minor captain etc you know Shane Bennett was playing at Watford they were great minor games
Just on that, that's off the table for another while again after an Art Corla meeting there at the weekend. They don't see it as feasible at the minute, which is disappointing to say the least.
It's amazing when something isn't feasible, which was feasible for about 110 years.
Speaking of not being feasible as well, I might as well bring it up now while we're segwaying away here. But the fact that New York have an exemption to stay in the Christie ring for three years, they can't be relegated for three years.
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Chapter 6: How do the emotions of past defeats affect Limerick's mindset?
And that was brought in at Congress this year. But a change can't be made to try and, you know, continue the great progress that Kildare have made and give them another year in Leinster or give other teams years. It's amazing how certain things can change and then with other things, oh no, that can't be changed. But that's probably, that's for another day.
That came out, obviously, after New York winning the record at the weekend.
Pat, I ask you the question, take us into... the Limerick camp this week. And I want to know, Pat, what way are these players going to be feeling? What way is King Lynch going to be feeling? Will O'Donoghue? You know, Kyle Hayes? Are they still going to be sore? And don't give me this Caroline Curd talk of, oh, there's going to be an element of calmness and, you know...
You know, they won't kind of ramp it up until they're in the dressing room. I'm not buying into any of that.
Chapter 7: What listener questions are addressed in this episode?
I think these lads are going to be fuelled this week to the last.
Yeah, no, it's a good point, John. Look, what do we often hear about this Limerick set-up? We often hear this word, and we hear it in a lot of counties now in the last couple of years, become a buzzword, the process. You know, you follow the process. What is the process, right? It's kind of a mix of two things. Obviously, it's your
game plan but most importantly it's your routine right so I know we're all you know we have fierce anticipation of such a big game this weekend and you would think to me now he's kind of fobbing off that question I'm not the routine for this game will be the exact same as the routine for we'll say the Watford game in the first round of the league and the second round of the league and the third round of the league and the fourth round of the league and the league final and the first round of the round robin
And that's where, if you have a management team that's been in place a while and they do put in this process, we'll call it, your routine is what allows you to actually perform, John, in terms of they will do nothing different this week in terms of the lay of the land, in terms of when they'll train, in terms of the time that they'll train, in terms of how long they'll give in a meeting room before training tonight.
It'll be 15 minutes and out the door. There'll be no going on for an hour going through about Cork. That won't happen at all. Most of it will actually be about themselves. 90% of it will be about themselves
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Chapter 8: What predictions are made for the weekend's hurling matches?
the one thing I'd say what is different from my time with those great players that you mentioned what you would notice in terms of the first week of June compared to February, April maybe even May is when they get into training tonight and the first drill that takes place
the laughing and the joking maybe that will be going on at different times of the year that's you know that comes down a bit the seriousness goes up some fellas that are great cracking around the transitions and they still be great crack before and after the likes of Keane Lynch or you know whoever you mentioned they're always kind of bubbling but when that ball goes in tonight Tuesday night no tonight is the night actually it's funny we're talking today there will be hell for leather there John
there will be John will stand over they'll start we'll say a drill with a couple of lads you know four on two or whatever it is John will stand five yards away before you get into a game and he will be dead quiet and he will say I want to see it here and all that we can't turn it on on Sunday and they will go there'll be a four or five minute period there John where we will be held for later as fast as they'll be going on Sunday they'll be going tonight into a game then where it'll be the A team versus the B team the team for Sunday probably more nightly or the last championship team and that maybe ten minutes a side game tonight
you know if it was if it was pay-per-view I know we give out about pay-per-view we'd all buy it tonight to watch it because they will be going hell for that or the very same as I'm sure Cock will I'm only speaking from my experience at Limerick you know it's as funny as people that aren't used to being in high performance environments you might think it's all calm you know and you ratchet it down we'll say come to the big games no you turn it up
you turn that dial up because that dial can't go up on Sunday that dial has to go up last week for us to be on the way up for the last six months so they'll be going hell for leather tonight and I maybe said this before John will even say there's no hold like just before the ball is turning for the match there's no holding back tonight lads something happens you just move on do not do not slow down do not slow down going into a tackle here do not going up for a high ball here do not if a man is if a man is there to be got at tonight you go at him and you take you know if a fella puts up his hand
and he's not doing it the right way like he do on Sunday you take it off him you know you just go all out because you can't turn on on Sunday it has to be done tonight is really important management would place huge importance on tonight Friday is a bit different they're still training they're still training hard Friday 25-30 minutes without the game maybe but this week is still hugely important like in that circle of trust when they're all getting together like
Who will be the speakers in that circle of trust outside of Kylie? And surely Kylie will ramp up the rhetoric tonight. Surely he'll bring a bit of volume to it. Surely there's that element of soreness It's still there from last year.
And, you know, even when we've seen the celebrations after, that has to carry over into this year and carry over, particularly going into this match in the months of finals.
Just on that, Pat, can some of that be unsaid, if that makes sense?
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