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Covid stops the crowds but can’t stop the passion - Leonardo da Vinci of Limerick GAA’s new masterpiece
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If one photo (below) captured the excitement before the All-Ireland in 2018 it was the one taken by Mike Cowhey on Roger Mulqueen’s farm in Crean, Bruff.
Instead of hanging off the rafters they were hanging off silage bales in a display dedicated to Sean Finn and Paul Browne. If it was to be recreated now Bruff Gardaí would be asking them to socially distance and don masks instead of jerseys.
So in a way, Roger’s 2020 sculpture (main picture) captures the isolation of 2020 but the passion for the Limerick hurlers remain. It’s a silage shrine to Sean Finn.
Like others, who are cautiously navigating the ’new normal’ landscape, he has “booked a table” on match day in a local venue, to enjoy “a good session and dinner”, with his friends and family.
In such uncertain times, talk of the virus and arranging plans around the match are never far apart.
Jeffrey O’Halloran, a brother of Brian’s, who is a frontline worker at a community hospital, says the survival of the hurling championship, despite the pandemic, has helped people cope with it all.
“Due to Covid, people are down, but the Limerick hurling team has given us a great boost this year, and they have brought us back to at least some normality. It’s very strange times, having an All-Ireland final in December, but it has given us all a big lift.”