Gearoid Hegarty has admitted he was “embarrassed” by the nature and consequence of the straight red card he was shown in Limerick’s second round defeat to Galway in the Allianz Hurling League, played in front of a home crowd and the LIT Gaelic Grounds last February.
It was Limerick’s second successive defeat of an ultimately unsuccessful league campaign, Hegarty sent off 10 minutes into the second after flicking his hurl at a Galway opponent in the aftermath of an ugly sideline scuffle.
With Limerick reduced to 14 men, Galway made the All-Ireland champions pay with seven unanswered points in the last ten minutes, winning 0-27 to Limerick’s 1-18, their first home league defeat since Cork beat them there in February 2019.
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- April 12, 2022
