This was what JP McManus set out in letters to every county board in 2018, when explaining why he had donated €100,000 to each county in the country, and what he wanted the respective boards to do with it. Generosity of spirit may start at home, but altruism reigned. He would back his own county. But not necessarily to the detriment of others. The previous month, on August 19, after the All-Ireland senior hurling championship win by his native Limerick, McManus was invited to join in the team’s celebrations. It was not an afterthought. This was a person, immersed in…