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Clare hurling coach Paul Kinnerk has labelled the county’s three-in-a-row Munster U21-winning team as a "once in a lifetime group".

Has the whole idea of sportspeople standing for something greater gone, asks Donal Óg Cusack?

2013: All-Ireland senior hurling medallist, All-Ireland U21 medallist, hurler of the year, young hurler of the year and all while still a teenager.

THERE’S roughly 137 miles separating Liam McHale’s home in Ballina in north Mayo and the village of Cooraclare in the west of Clare. In the winter he embarks on that route two nights every week to the pitch which is the epicentre for the Banner county’s football preparations.

TOMORROW’S ESB All-Ireland MHC semi-final offers a golden opportunity for Clare and Dublin to end barren spells since their last national decider at the grade.

IT’S twelve months since the puckout that prompted a raging storm from the Clare hurling fraternity, but Ciaran O’Doherty is in no mood to dwell on the past.

GEORGIE FITZPATRICK was always a popular man in Kilkee. His easygoing manner and a phenomenal football service record for club and county is the type of stuff that gains you kudos in this part of West Clare.