Richie Bennis has vowed to continue as Limerick hurling manager for another year. Bennis, who led the Shannonsiders to an unexpected All-Ireland final appearance last year, is expected to come under pressure to step down after last Saturday's disastrous All-Ireland qualifier loss to Offaly at the Gaelic Grounds. Bennis' team were booed off the pitch at the final whistle and even had various objects thrown at them as sections of the home support vented their fury with the display. "I'm not going to pull out, I'm happy to stay with the set-up and help Limerick in any way I can. If they can get a better man, well and good, I have no problem with that either," he said. "We didn't perform today, some of our men that got All-Stars last year didn't perform today. I won't knock them because they gave us a great year last year. Whether we can recover now is another thing. We have to try. I'm very disappointed." He added: "There'll have to be some big soul searching because we prepared as hard as for any match last year and we didn't underestimate Offaly. Offaly hadn't hurled like that against Kilkenny but let's be realistic about it, Kilkenny were a better opposition than us and we have to be honest about it, how good are we?" Tweet

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