They’re a year older, a year stronger - Tipperary begin search for new hurling faces
Liam Sheedy started his look at younger players in their squad on Saturday against Limerick. By Fintan O Toole Monday 10 May 2021, 6:00 AM Mon 6:00 AM 6,435 Views 6 Comments
Tipperary s Brian McGrath and Limerick s Seamus Flanagan.
Image: Morgan Treacy/INPHO
Image: Morgan Treacy/INPHO
IT WAS 168 days since Liam Sheedy had last taken his Tipperary team into action.
Saturday was a return to the scene of their 2020 exit, nudged aside in a thriller against Galway last November.
The Gaelic Grounds was a familiar setting in that sense but perhaps it was another previous game at the Limerick venue that Sheedy was paying closer attention to.
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As the saying goes, you wait all day for a bus, and then they all come together . For over four months now, we have been waiting for this weekend. And just like that, there is an avalanche, a feast of hurling upon us.
You can see it around the streets of Limerick. The colours are back on, the chat is going again, people are excited, and there is a sense of normality around. I have no doubt it’s the same across all parts of the country. And even with that sense of normality around, there are still so many things different.
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The two car collision happened at Ballyhiskey, Carrigatoher on the N7 near Nenagh on July 11th last.
The crash claimed the life of 65 year old Noel McGrath who was the driver of one of the cars while his wife was seriously injured.
Mr McGrath was a former Limerick footballer and a native of the Oola – Solohead parish on the Tipp-Limerick border.
Three men were arrested in connection with the fatal hit & run in recent days.
Peter Flynn of Grennanstown, Norwood, Nenagh has been charged with Dangerous Driving Causing Death and one count of endangerment.
Ciaran McInerney of Doon Road, Broadford, County Clare and a teenager from County Clare – who was a juvenile at the time of the incident – have both been charged with assisting an offender.