Limerick star Tom Morrissey is keen for players’ families to attend next weekend’s All-Ireland senior hurling championship final.

The Shannonsiders face Waterford at Croke Park next Sunday week looking to claim their second Liam MacCarthy Cup in three years.

Full panels are now allowed to attend games with the country’s return to Level 3 restrictions and Morrissey is hopeful that the GAA will look into letting families be in attendance for the big occasion.

"We won a League and a Munster Championship and obviously we are hugely privileged and we know we are lucky to play the championship this year but it was a small bit disappointing that we couldn't have our relatives close to us," he told Sky Sports.

"Playing the All-Ireland final next week and after the match again, just such a big moment in our lives and not to have those people that are so important to you at the game and to share those moments in the immediate aftermath of a game.

"You go to your family and those people who are with you and supported you all through the years. Not to have them there is disappointing and it would be nice if the GAA - I don't know if they are - could look into maybe getting family there.”

He continued: "A big stadium like Croke Park, I don't think there is any reason why it couldn't be made possible. You're looking for maybe 500 people in a 82,000-capacity stadium. I know it would mean a whole lot to the players. It would mean a huge amount.

"I see over in England this weekend they're going back trialling crowds into sporting games and it's an outdoor arena and I just think it would be nice and it would be safe."

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