Letters to the Editor: All-Ireland victory cannot be bought
Limerick's strength and conditioning coach Joe O'Connor, left, and coach Paul Kinnerk lift the Liam MacCarthy Cup on August 19, 2018, after their GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Final against Galway at Croke Park. File picture: Seb Daly/Sportsfile
In 2018, Limerick surprised the hurling world when they won the Liam McCarthy Cup after a lapse of 45 years. Over the next five years the Treaty men assembled an outstanding hurling team, or group as John Kiely calls it, and garnered some unprecedented success.
What surprised me was so many sports journalists, including some in the Irish Examiner, continued to attribute this success to the “genius” of Paul Kinnerk on the sideline and the substantial financial input of JP McManus.
