Limerick selector Stephen McDonagh at the Electric Ireland GAA Hurling All Ireland Minor Championship Semi-Final, Galway v Limerick in Croke Park, Dublin on August 17, 2014. Photo: Brendan Moran / Sportsfile.
For forty-five years, the Treaty County wandered a barren wasteland of broken dreams, locked out of hurling’s promised land. Nearly half a century of near misses and heartbreak left many on Shannonside with only memories and misery—a proud tradition cast into the wilderness. But on August 18, 2018, all of that was washed away. As…
