Sure enough there was a pretty good crowd to greet Limerick's three-in-a-row heroes as they once again returned home with the Liam MacCarthy Cup.
And while there were plenty of memorable moments from their joyous homecoming, it's hard to imagine there was anything better than John Kiely leading everyone in a rendition of the Billy Joel classic 'Piano Man'.
By the sound of it, his voice had already been through it a bit between roaring his side on in the dying moments as they were pushed all the way on Sunday afternoon to what was surely a long night of celebrations with a few other sing-songs. But it was a more than fair effort all the same.
