Limerick took on Henry Shefflin’s Galway on Saturday evening at the Gaelic Grounds and the Tribesmen managed to defeat the Treaty county on a scoreline of 1-18 to 0-27 points. The main talking point of the game was the sending off of Limerick’s forward Gearóid Hegarty. The former Cork goalkeeper Donal Óg Cusack wasn’t holding back in his criticism of the St. Patrick’s club man.

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“I think Fergal Horgan got it right. Listen, Limerick have been outstanding champions for the last few years but if there’s been one question mark around them, a main question mark, it’s around their discipline.

“Flanagan got sent off against Waterford last year. Gillane and Flanagan should have got sent off in the Munster final. Casey was sent off and Hegarty tonight. And it was right that he got sent off. And I would say this as well, with Hegarty, you’d have to say, it’s coming to him with a while. You’d have to say, it wouldn’t take you that long to find five other instances…You can’t use that hurley like that.

“We’ve all spoken very highly of him and Limerick over the last few years, but he has a fierce habit of flicking back with the hurley. You can’t do it.

“He has been very lucky over the last few years. I’d actually say that when John Kiely sits down and looks at that, he will nearly feel relieved in some ways that it happened to him out here.”

“Limerick were lucky that it didn’t happen in a big game last year and it could have had a bigger impact on the outcome in the Munster final.

“This was coming to Hegarty and they were lucky that it happened to them tonight.”