History awaits the Clare team facing Wexford in this evening’s U-21 All-Ireland final in Thurles as the Banner county look to join a select band of counties to have landed three successive titles.

The Cork underage hurling set-up is riddled with serious structural deficiencies that the proposed €70m renovation of Páirc Uí Chaoimh will do nothing to rectify, according to former Cork goalkeeper Donal Óg Cusack.

The management teams from Clare and Kilkenny have opted for unchanged starting line-ups for tomorrow's Bord Gáis Energy All-Ireland U-21 Hurling Championship final in Thurles (throw-in 7pm).