Cian Lynch has made an impassioned plea to next year's Limerick minor hurlers to make amends for the heart-breaking All-Ireland final loss to Kilkenny.

The Limerick captain, whose three years as a county minor ended with last Sunday's four-point defeat at Croke Park, said at the team's All-Ireland final banquet in the Kilmurry Lodge Hotel: "Sadly we don't have the cup, but we just have to get on with it.

"It's time for Limerick hurling to drive on and stop sitting back and thinking we got to an All-Ireland final.

"As a team there are a lot of 18-year-olds leaving this year and don't want us to just sit back and go back to our clubs and go through the motions. For the 17 and 16-year-olds, ye have a chance next year and the year after to redeem ourselves and it's time to make getting to Croke Park a habit and that's there for ye if ye keep going and keep listening to the lads that are over ye."

The Patrickswell youngster also paid tribute to the Treaty County's supporters for sticking by the team.

"On a night like this is not ideal but it's great to have Limerick supporters - even when we walked in, it meant an awful lot," he is quoted in the Limerick Leader.

"I know we didn't have a cup but for young fellas of 16, 17, 18 it touched us in the heart to know that there are people who support us."

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