Watch moment Limerick GAA fans taunt RTE pundit after win over Cork as Joanne Cantwell jokes ‘I wonder who that's for'
Cusack - who won five Munster titles and three All-Irelands for the Rebels - was in the middle of analyzing the game when a roar came up from the pitch at the Gaelic Grounds.
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Limerick hammered Cork in the Munster hurling championship
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Down below, a large cohort of
cheer
in Cusack's direction.
The former goalkeeper tried to snap back at the cheeky congregation by saying: "There is a long year yet, folks", although he conceded they may not have heard him.
Joanne Cantwell chimed in by rhetorically asking: "I wonder who that's aimed at of all the panel".
Liam Sheedy responded: "It could be any one of the three of us."
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Sunday belonged to John Kiely's men, who put their bitter rivals to the sword in a stylish first-half, followed by a controlled second.
Goals from Aaron Gillane and Adam English -
And while
According to Donal Og Cusack, the result and
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He said: "The game is the game.
"I don't think anybody expected that Limerick would beat Cork by this amount today.
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"But from a Cork point of view, the worst part is over.
"They will just have to go back, take this beating and a lot of learnings.
"There were more than small cracks became emergent there and those cracks will have a jackhammer put to them.
"I think they definitely learnt their lesson in terms of how to mark key Limerick men individually.
"The need, when Cork get chances, that they need to put them away.
"There is a long season ahead.
"It has to be said from a Cork point of view, this Limerick team...have we ever seen a better team?
"What a machine they were today. So well engineered, resilient, strong, every part working and up for the fight everywhere."
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