What’s Another Year
it would not take Sherlock Holmes to figure out I am a sports fan. I am the worst possible kind of sports fan, a Limerick Hurling fan. There are many afflictions in life that cause misery, depression and despair, but none is quite so bad as being a Limerick Hurling fan. Each year is our year for Liam Mc Carthy to return home. Each year begins in promise and yields nothing. That has been our story for so long. But not anymore.
Slipping quietly by, almost unnoticed this week, the GAA announced the fixtures for next years provincial championship.
Munster SHC:
Quarter-Finals:
Tipperary v Cork
Semi-Finals:
Clare v Waterford
Limerick v Tipperary OR Cork
The optimist in me says a Munster Championship is possible. The pessimist generally doesn’t show up until rounds 3 or 4 of the national hurling league.
On the football side of the draw
Munster SFC Quarter-final
Clare v Waterford
Kerry v Tipperary
Munster SFC Semi-finals
Limerick v Clare/Waterford
Cork v Kerry/Tipperary
Who knows? a Double Munster championship in 2010 is a possibility.