LIMERICK’S Colin Ryan was crowned M Donnelly All-Ireland Poc Fada champion this August Bank Holiday Monday.

It’s the second senior hurling success for the Pallasgreen man.

Ryan is just one of five Limerick winners of the Corn Setanta on the the Annaverna Mountain in the Cooley Peninsula, Co Louth.

The first staging of the competition was in 1961 when Limerick native Br Vincent Godfrey was winner.

Pat Hartigan was the winner in 1981 and ’83 and another two-time winner was Albert Shanahan in 2001 and 2005.

Tommy Quaid won the title in 1991.

Now Colin Ryan joins that illustrious list of South LIberties duo Hartigan and Shanahan to be crowned All-Ireland Poc Fada champion on two occasions.

Ryan won a Munster minor hurling championship medal with Limerick in 2013 before progressing to win an All-Ireland U21 title in 2015. He then joined the county senior squad – collecting a coveted Celtic Cross All-Ireland medal in Croke Park in 2018.

He warned up for this afternoon’s poc fada final by lining out for Pallasgreen in the Limerick Intermediate Club Hurling Championship round one fixture against Murroe-Boher on Sunday in Cappamore. His side lost that tie 0-24 to 1-16. And there will be little rest for the newly crowned national champion with Pallasgreen back in Limerick IHC action on Saturday against Knockainey.

Ryan first won the national poc fada title in 2021.

Last year he narrowly missed out on regaining his title but this August 4 he went one better than 12-months ago.

In mid-June Ryan retained his Munster title when the competition was staged on the Galtee Mountains. 

This Monday, the All-Ireland final turned into a battle of former champions.

Ryan, 2024 champion Fionan Mackessy (Kilkenny) and Cillian Kiely (Offaly) all finished the course on 25 pucks. The Limerick man was crowned champion has he last puck was the furthest over the finishing line.

Elsewhere, Cork’s Molly Lynch won the senior camogie title for a fifth successive year.

At U16 level, there were wins for Offaly’s Siofra Ginty (camogie) and Conor Raleigh of Westmeath in hurling.