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Next year, Limerick. You have a special team, and it will reap its rewards for all the hard work and the great hearts. Dad, I wish I could have been there with you. Or perhaps just for the Tipp and Waterford games! Conn Herriott, Kathmandu.
Congratulations to the GAA for a wonderful Kilkenny/Limerick final. We listened on RTÉ Radio 1 web. Kind regards, Jytte & Seamus Brogan, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Well it's all over now and we have equalled Cork in titles. Of course, Cork won several of those before there was anyone to oppose them (with the exception of Tipp). Hard luck Limerick, come back next year, you have nothing to fear from the big boys of Munster. Congrats to Kilkenny. Well done all especially Shefflin, Larkin, Walsh and the Man of the Day, my own parish man, Brennan. My heart goes out to McGarry and son. God bless you all. Joe Kelly, New York.
I am sending this too late but HURRAY!!!!! We just tuned in online to hear the match. Well done lads! Owen sends a big hu-rah to Tommy Walsh. Owen had two open-heart surgeries in his first weeks of life and he has shown his tremendous Kilkenny fighting spirit by overcoming every obstacle he had to face. Tommy was a great support at a fundraiser held by friends and family of ours in Castlecomer to help us cover medical costs. Thank you Tommy you are the BEST! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are going to celebrate tonight! Anne Marie, Frank, James, Katie & Owen Mulvey in New York.
Supporting the Cats from Austin, Texas, USA. Ann, Jack and Eoin Mac Ewan.
Never mind the first half, it's what you do in the second half that counts. We're all cheering you on from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA. Sean, Sheila, Shane and Gavin Murphy.
Ruth Counihan here from Kilrush, Co Clare. Living in Berlin at the moment with my husband Brian. Come on Limerick. Good luck! You can do it. You have support from all over the world. Listening on my laptop to the live commentary by Jimmy Magee. I feel like I'm there. Ruthie x
COME ON LIMERICK, WE CAN DO THIS. FROM TIM HURLEY, FREEPORT, LONG ISLAND.
Wishing Limerick the best of luck today from the oil fields of Kazakhstan. Conor McCarthy.
Good luck to Limerick from all the Doodys in Omaha, Nebraska.
Avril Mulcahy here listening on the internet from Sydney!!! I'm originally from Cashel, Co Tipperary. I'm shouting on the Blue & Gold today, supporting the minors. I'm an avid fan and this is the first All-Ireland I've ever missed. Hurling is in my blood, with my grandfather, the great Jim Devitt playing for Tipperary and winning two All-Ireland medals. Come on Tipp!!!! All the best to the Shannonsiders too. We had three great days out back in June. Hello to Ann & Seamus Mulcahy in Cashel also. Love ye loads, Avril x x x
We just wanted to pass on our best wishes to both teams today. Unfortunately we are in Finland with no means of watching the game out here. But we'll be listening to Mícheál (who needs a TV). Come on Limerick!!! From Lee & Mira, Hyvinkää, Finland. PS, Galway to win Sam next year!
Good luck to Limerick from Aunty Cathy, Michael and Rose watching from the Spotted Dog, Digbeth, Birmingham. Íde Reidy.
Annyong Haseyo from Korea! Good luck to both teams, but of course the BEST of luck to Kilkenny! Up the Cats! Can't watch the match here in Busan, Korea (city of four million!) but will hopefully tune in on the wireless (internet, not radio!!) Wearing my jersey today, got a few funny looks from the Koreans! Cill Chainnigh abu! Hello to all the Cahills and O'Keeffes in Kilkenny, and abroad. Deirdre Cahill, 26, teaching Irish English in Busan, Korea!
Best of luck to the lads from Ronan Kirby, Bruff, currently on holiday in Thailand. In an Irish bar in Samui and the tension is already building. Please send my regards to the loyal tribe in Dave Clarke's in Bruff, go on chief Kelly!!
C'mon Limerick!!! How about Limerick 3-12 Kilkenny 2-14? From Peter O'Donoghue in Lancaster, PA, USA. Played with Na Piarsaigh in my very young days and I enjoy showing friends how to play the most skilled game in the world.
To Ollie and the rest of the boys. We will be watching you and cheering all the way today unfortunately not in Croke Park though. You can do it lads! The O'Connells, Jacksonville , Florida. Come on Limerick, from all the gang in Donkey's.
I wish I could be at home today but will be listening and shouting for Limerick here in Rundu on the Namibian-Angolan border. Rose Magner, Kilfinane, Co Limerick (Currently working as a teacher trainer in Namibia, Africa).
We are both wishing our respective counties all the very best for the final. There may very well be a lot of cold exchanges in Finnegan's bar Bangkok, but let's just hope they're of the cold porter variety!! Sean Shanahan (Ballybrown, Co Limerick) and Rita Brennan (Wallslough (the village), Co Kilkenny).
To the Limerick lads, you can do it from all here in New York. Dawn Enright.
Say YES to Limerick. Say NO to KILKENNY. Wish you all the best of game! Sporting Limerick. From KL SAS Team at DELL Limerick. Farah Atikah Said - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on behalf of KL SAS Team Dell, Limerick 2007
Best of luck to the Cats and the Tipp minors from the Beehans in Cobar, Australia. We will be watching on Setanta Sports. Won't be the same but it will have to do. Hopefully PJ will be fit to play. A big hello to the Beehan family in Johnstown, Co Kilkenny and the O'Deas in Loughmore, Co Tipp. Go on the Cats (Number 30 in the bag). Derek, Vivian and Caoimhe Beehan. Cobar, Australia.
Wishing Limerick all the very best. Absolutely gutted I can't be there. Tried my hardest to make it home but my bank account wouldn't leave me. I remember standing in the Canal End after Offaly and Wexford, hopefully this time Liam will be heading down to Limerick. Bring it home boys. I'll be watching via the computer in the local backpackers hostel. Really hope we can do it, have a feeling we will. Big hello to all the family; ma, da, Damian and Owen and to all the boys heading up on the bus on Saturday morning. Wish I was with ye. Up Limerick from Jason Mullins (Raheen) and Alex. Living in Rotorua, New Zealand.
Best wishes and every success to the lads on Sunday and thanks for lighting up the hurling year!! We will be in Croke Park to support the Shannonsiders and Limerick have nothing to fear against Kilkenny!!! Lovely hurling Limerick, just go out and do what you do best...hurl and be happy!!!! Luimneach Abu!! From John Giltenan, Caherdavin, Colimerick, a life-long, loyal Limerick supporter!!
Good luck Kilkenny – we know you'll do us proud on the 2nd! Eileen, Jim, Kieran and Keelin in Toronto, Canada. We'll be tuned in, in our black and amber jerseys.
Best of luck to the Cats on Sunday, I know we can do it again. We will be bringing the Liam McCarthy Cup back to Kilkenny again this year. Sarah, London, England.
Two weeks ago, my brother in San Fransisco was not coming home for the final. However, as the time drew nearer his attitude began to change. Now that the game is almost here yes, as I predicted, he arrives in Shannon on Saturday morning at 8.30am and flies back on Tuesday. I know he will have his Limerick jersey on when I pick him up in Shannon. Best of Luck to Limerick, what a bunch of lads. Liam Heffernan.
Gutted I can't make the trip home like my colleague Aongus O'Keeffe but will be listening on the 'net! 33 years of sorrow to end gloriously on Sunday, now if I could only convince the Sierra Leoneans to stop their election campaigning and listen to some quality stickwork! Niall McCann, UNDP Field Coordination Advisor to the National Elections Commission, Wellington, Freetown Sierra Leone.
Wishing Limerick every success on Sunday, please bring home SAM, he has been away too long!. From Pat, Mags, Orna (three-years-old) and Erin (six months) O'Neill in Clonmacken, Ennis Road, Limerick.
Best of luck to the team and especially Donie Ryan from Garryspillane. From Dave Tobin (Garryspillane) and Austin, Texas.
Wishing Kilkenny the very best of luck on Sunday!!! We will be watching in 'Napper Tandy's' Irish bar owned by a Tipp man, who will be rooting for the minors. Up the Cats!!!!!!! Hello to everyone in Glenmore, Co Kilkenny. From Glenn, Sandra, Seamus, Cormac and Aidan Holland in North Carolina, USA.
Wishing Limerick the best of luck in the All-Ireland. We are in Malaysia and will be listening to the match on the web. Thank you. John Paul Pierce and Caroline Bermingham.
A long way from home but my thoughts are with all the family at home and to all the Limerick panel. It has been a wonderful journey for this Limerick team and now one last final effort awaits. I wish the team the very best of luck and may the underdog prosper and write their names in the history books as making this year's Championship the best in many years! All the best and enjoy every minute! John Doody, Invercargill, South Island, New Zealand.
Coming from Tipperary, I feel like the meat in the sandwich. Good luck to our minors, and it would it would be nice to say that it took the All-Ireland champions three attempts to beat us. I will be listening to it all up the boreen in Kansas City Missouiri. Dermot Byrne.
Just Want To Say A Huge Good Luck To The Kilkenny Cats!! Helen And Family Are All Supporting You Here In Whaley Bridge!! Can't Be There With You In Person This Year, But Will Be There In Spirit! We'll All Be Celebrating Here When You Bring The Cup Back To Its Rightful Home In Kilkenny!! Hope PJ Ryan's Wrist Is Getting Better! Also Would Like To Say A Huge Hello To The Quinlan And Ryan Families In Johnstown, Co Kilkenny! Come On The Cats! Helen Bowden, Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire, England.
I may be 12,000 miles away in Sydney, Australia but when Limerick get up to win I will hear the cheers from here and my thoughts will go back to the time I lined up with all the rest of the young lads to get an autograph from the last man to bring the Liam McCarthy Cup to Limerick, the great Eamonn Grimes. My thoughts are with you! Go Limerick! Ps, Hello to my Mam and Dad, Charlie and Marie, in Ballinacurra Gardens, Limerick. Liam Daly.
Best of luck to the boys in green on Sunday, hoping they will end the famine and bring Liam home to Shannonside. We'll be watching every minute in Fado's Irish pub in Denver. Brian, Clara and Samantha O'Donoghue in Denver, Colorado, USA.
Very best wishes to the Limerick team from all at St Werburgh's Parish Centre, Chester, England and in particular the Kenyon and Wallace families. We're certain that you will cap a memorable season by bringing the cup home and be the cause of a savage hangover on Monday morning!! See the pic above right.
The O'Connor clan from Ardagh, Co Luimni, Jack, Carmel, Oli, Audi, Aidan, Barry and Iris, wish the boys in green all the very best of luck on Sunday. Richie, Gary et al, we are all rooting for ye. Yahooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
As an ex-pat, I just want to say to Richie Bennis, the management and players of Limerick, what you have done this year is truly amazing. No one gave us a chance, no one. You have put Limerick hurling back on the map, thus creating a buzz that hasn't been seen in years. It would be fitting for Limerick to win the Liam McCarthy, after the epic matches they have played this year. I wish I could be there to see the match, but via satellite will have to do (it will be at 2.30am but who cares!!). Bring home Liam McCarthy and Limerick people all over the world will party like they have never partied before. Best of luck lads from Sean Lake, originally from Ballyagran, Co Limerick, now living in Wellington, New Zealand.
Best of Luck to the Limerick lads in the All-Ireland. From Ger O'Gorman, Balad, Iraq.
Good luck to the Limerick team on Sunday on the last step to an achievement no one could ever have predicted at the start of the Championship, from Anthony Purcell in Boston, USA.
I want to wish the Cats all the best on Sept 2nd. I will be watching in Toronto. John in Toronto, Canada.
Good luck and best wishes to the greatest hurling county in Ireland, Kilkenny, and a big 'hello' to everyone in Callan, especially my mother and sisters Sandra and Yvonne. Up the Cats. From Michael Roche, Barnet, England.
No Kilkenny on 2 September! Gillian McCormack and the Wolfhound supporting LUIMNEACH, Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea.
Good luck to all the Limerick team, hope they can bring the Liam McCarthy Cup back to Limerick. From Donal Kehoe and Shane O'Brien in Perth, Australia.
I want to send my very best wishes to Richie Bennis and the Limerick team. What they have done this year is little short of fantastic. Winning on 2 September will make the fairytale complete. Limerick will put it up to Kilkenny on the first Sunday in September and I know they will do us proud. All through the year people have written off Limerick but each time Limerick came up with the goods and I know they can do it again. Luimneach abu! From Orla Kuiper-Ryan, from Limerick. Married to a Dutchman and living in Oudkarspel, North Holland. We hope to be in Croke Park to shout Limerick on in person. The flight is already booked!
The 2nd of September
On the 2nd of September if you’re passing through Bruree,
Bruff, Glenroe or Patrickswell, you’ll be all alone you see
‘Cos we’ll all be up in Dublin, in Croke Park and not the Zoo,
We’ll be cheering on the Limerick boys and this is what we’ll do.
We’ll sing “Limerick You’re A Lady”,
We’ll sing “Sean South from Garryowen”
We’ll bring home the Liam McCarthy Cup and put it on the Treaty Stone
Then we’ll dance in Murroe-Boher, we’ll light bonfires in Ahane
We’ll cheer Limerick in Adare, Mungret, Doon and Garryspillane.
There’ll be dancing in Dromcollogher, in Kilmallock we’ll sing our song
We’ll raise the roof in Caherconlish, Kilfinane and Knocklong
We’ll wave our flags in Cappamore, Croagh and Newcastlewest
We can be sure of one thing – our Limerick boys will do their best.
In Galbally and Ballylanders, Croom, Hospital and Rathkeale
We’ll be cheering Richie's brave young lads, so proud of them we feel
In South Liberties and Herbertstown, Kiltealy and Monaleen
All the women, men and children will be proudly wearing green.
In Kildimo we’ll be shouting, in Limerick City and Dromkeen
Pallas, Kelleady and Oola will have celebrations never seen
All the people back in Ardagh, Knockainey and Athea
Forever will remember this great All-Ireland day.
Now my song is almost over, but I’ve one thing more to say
That’s to wish Limerick the best of luck, may every ball go your way
Good luck Richie, Gary and all the squad, we always will remember
The joy you brought to Shannonside on the 2nd of September.
An ode to Limerick for the All-Ireland final from Gerrie Gainey, Knocklong, Co Limerick.
Hello to all in Kilkenny from Melbourne, Australia. Martin Ryan and Pat Ryan and family would like to wish the mighty Black and Amber all the very best in the final on 2 September. We will be tuned in. Come on the Kilkenny Cats. Do us proud from the Ryan gang.
Best of luck to the Cats on 2 September. Remember what happened the last time you came close to a 'three-in-a-row' final. Maintain that hunger and passion and the Cup will come back to its natural home in Kilkenny. Limerick are battle-hardened and passionate, so watch out Cats. Result: Kilkenny 3-18, Limerick 2-20. A great final in prospect. Best of luck to two great teams. Sean Condon, San Francisco, USA.
