News: Limerick football manager Liam Kearns has expressed his concern at the lack of progress by county teams in the provincial minor championship over the last few years.

The county, he told the Football Committee's annual general meeting, needed a conveyor belt of talent coming through if the promise shown was to be maintained.

Unless new players were coming through the system, he warned, the current senior team would be seen as a one-off.

"We just won't be able to keep up to the same level".

Kearns, entering his fifth season at the helm, reminded delegates that 12 months ago he predicted promotion and a place in the provincial final for the first time in 12 years, adding that both targets had been achieved.

It was important, he stressed, that the momentum should continue.

There is just one officership change, with John Galvin, father of current county footballer of the same name, coming in as vice-chairman.