Billy Lee was typically pragmatic and cut to the quick having watched his Limerick side ship a record beating from Kerry on Saturday.
Indeed, there was a whiff of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Try Again. Fail Again. Fail better.’ mantra to his post-match comments after Limerick were on the receiving end of a 23-point defeat which matched the biggest ever in a Munster final, Kerry’s 6-11 to 2-0 victory over Clare 103 years ago.
“We won’t sugar coat it,” said Lee. “We will take it on the chin. We are not in the business of hiding from what happened out there and there is no point. We are not going to justify that we did this, that or the other.