Limerick fall asleep at the wheel and just hold off Galway in frantic endgame

NHL Division 1A: Limerick 2-27 Galway 0-31 Who knows? When Limerick went 11 points clear in the first minute of the second half the game was devoid of everything that makes a story: tension, a plot, mystery. About 40 minutes later, though, the team that are favourites to sweep the boards this year were clinging to the cliff’s edge with Galway stamping on their fingers. By the final minute of stoppage time, nothing had been settled. Cathal Mannion’s shot for goal from a free was blocked by Kyle Hayes in a frenzied Limerick goalmouth and when Brian Concannon seized on the rebound Will O’Donoghue put himself in the path of the shot. The siege resumed from the resultant 65, with Limerick bodies...