Unlimited Heartbreak: The Inside Story of Limerick Hurling

[gooner]

i live in limerick for the last 12 years and have seen enough drunk limerick hurlers in that time , that under 21 team that won the 3 in a row would be on serious benders around the town after games and the place is small so you couldn't miss them , that and the fact they thought there were the greatest hurlers ever
but hurling in limerick city is fcuked, no teams and no players, the schools prefer the rugger and the local clubs get all the young fellas instead of the gaa club, im in my early 40s now and a fella from the nearest club asked me to join up just because i told him i played underage for blackrock

 

[Killyoursons]

How Limerick squandered their all-conquering under-21 team is one of the great sporting puzzlements of the decade. I wouldn't mind reading a well-written book on the topic. I dunno how much I'd want to read it if it's just interview transcripts, though.

Agreed. Did you read 'House of Pain', about Mayo football? Similar topic.

 

[wayne gayle]

The way our footballers are going there must be a market for "Cork:Twenty years of hurt".

 

[moccork]

i live in limerick for the last 12 years and have seen enough drunk limerick hurlers in that time , that under 21 team that won the 3 in a row would be on serious benders around the town after games and the place is small so you couldn't miss them , that and the fact they thought there were the greatest hurlers ever
but hurling in limerick city is fcuked, no teams and no players, the schools prefer the rugger and the local clubs get all the young fellas instead of the gaa club, im in my early 40s now and a fella from the nearest club asked me to join up just because i told him i played underage for blackrock

Same problem with hurling in cork city. The problem is not rugby or soccer but social lives. LThis myth about rugby in Limerick being super strong and killing other sports is just rubbish,

 

[northmallexile]

Agreed. Did you read 'House of Pain', about Mayo football? Similar topic.

Haven't done, no. Kind of book I would've picked up in the library when I was still living in Cork, but my local library here in Milton Keynes doesn't have the greatest GAA section...

 

[aghabullogue 1890]

I'd say it'll be interesting read all the same I'll get it cause Limerick should have won an AI with all that U21 talent

 

[Eoin]

I'd say it'll be interesting read all the same I'll get it cause Limerick should have won an AI with all that U21 talent

Yep, and lets face it, they should have won in 94 as well, jesus, how they threw that one away I'll never know.

 

[Coogee]

In fairness, why would anyone outside Limerick give a toss?

true enough...the same as no one else in the country apart from Cork people gave a toss about the strikers

 

[rebelicecreamman]

true enough...the same as no one else in the country apart from Cork people gave a toss about the strikers

Which is as it should be. Thank you.

 

[bombdiggity]

I've been reading it. It's very interesting stuff. Half way through. Well written.
No holds barred. Everyone speaks bluntly and all the major ills that have affected Limerick hurling are dealt with appropriately.
ANYONE interested in hurling would enjoy it