Manager Shane O'Neill wants his Na Piarsaigh team to push on and win an All-Ireland club hurling title after capturing their third Munster crown since 2011 yesterday.

The Limerick champions have been installed as favourites to lift the Tommy Moore Cup after coming from behind to beat Ballygunner at Semple Stadium, but they have yet to contest an All-Ireland final, having lost semi-finals to Loughgiel and Portumna respectively in 2012 and 2014.

They will now have an opportunity to make amends for those defeats against the winners of next Sunday's Leinster final between Cuala and Oulart-The Ballagh, and O'Neill admitted in the Irish Independent: "We obviously made some mistakes because we lost both All-Ireland semi-finals. We'll have a look at that. I was involved in one of them myself a player (2012).

"We'll have to see among the players what they thought could be improved on coming up to the All-Ireland series. We haven't got over the line, so that's a target for these guys to go for now.

"Overall, we asked them last year to be the best they can be, which is a bit of a cliche, but they demanded so much more from themselves and each other because they had won the two Munster clubs and we felt again that we probably didn't get the credit we deserved.

"But I don't think there can be any questioning the club now with three counties and three Munsters in five years."

 

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