GARDEN WILT AS TREATY SCYTHE SHOWS AN EDGE

THIS wasn't so much a game of two halves, as a second half of two halves.

- KEVIN EGAN

Limerick led by the bare minimum at the break, meaning that the real business of this Tailteann Cup contest was yet to unfold.

Darragh O'Hagan had a fisted effort on goal saved by Mark Jackson, Danny Neville scythed through for a point, and then Wicklow took over.

Malachy Stone found the net, Kevin Quinn terrorised the Limerick defence, and when Dean Healy hit his second two-pointer of the game to make it 1-16 to 1-9, he mimicked referee David Murnane by raising both of his arms, and the Garden County were rampant.

"All we wanted was to was to get on the ball, calm things down, we knew there was more in them - and there was," said Limerick manager Billy Lee.