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.”