Limerick star Gearoid Hegarty described the feeling of regaining the Liam MacCarthy Cup after the disappoint of the last two season as “unbelievably satisfying”.

Hegarty, the now 2/7 favourite to win ‘Hurler of the Year’, enjoyed a sixth All-Ireland SHC success in his county’s colours this afternoon as the Treaty men brushed Galway aside with a 1-29 to 1-18 victory at Croke Park.

Speaking to The Sunday Game after he final, the 31-year-old said the group are delighted after what was “a tough couple of years”.

"It's been so hard. It's been so tough," he stated. "I always speak about the Munster championship. Trying to get out of Munster every single year, it's two different competitions. It's so tough.

"So that's kind of the first objective, to get out of Munster and then you get up to the All-Ireland series, trying to get up into this stadium and you're coming up against teams that have momentum behind them obviously having won a good few games to get here.

"So it's been unbelievably tough but unbelievably satisfying after 2024 and 2025. I'm not afraid to say we got used to coming up here every year and going back down the road with the Cup and it was a tough couple of years.

"I know we waited 45 years before 2018, but when you get used to something it does make it hard then when you're used to coming up here on All-Ireland semi-final and All-Ireland final day. So it's immensely satisfying to get back to Croke Park and to get back to contesting these finals and obviously today went well for us."

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