A crestfallen Brian Lohan lamented Clare’s wides tally and the failure of referee Liam Gordon to award Tony Kelly or Adam Hogan a free-in deep into injury-time to draw the Munster SHC final.

The Galway match official was escorted off the pitch at the final whistle after both Kelly and Hogan were felled in the last play, but Lohan was just as frustrated with his side’s conversion rate as Limerick completed a five-in-a-row of provincial successes.

"We find it very hard to get decisions," the Banner boss told RTÉ.

"We don’t have that much power or influence or anything like that. It’s tough for our lads. Is it hard to take? Yeah.

"It was very even in a lot of areas but the biggest area where there was a big difference was shooting efficiency. We weren’t as efficient as we could have been or needed to be to win the game. That decided the result."

Lohan was already looking to the next game which is an All-Ireland SHC quarter-final against either Dublin or Carlow in a fortnight’s time.

"That’s the big challenge with the way the championship is structured," he continued.

"It’s all go, you don’t really get a chance to recover. You just move onto the next game and that’s what we have to do now."

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