After 20 years only bits and pieces are fresh in his mind.

Alan Clohessy is hoping that the Clare senior footballers can create history this weekend and become the first team from the Banner County since 1992 to secure the Munster SFC title.

Clare will field a team showing two personnel changes when they try to upset hot favourites Cork in Sunday's Munster SFC final.

At half-time and facing a nine-point deficit having only managed two points from play Limerick manager Maurice Horan put one simple question to his players — “what are ye doing?”

The focus of the Gaelic football community was trained on Croke Park that Sunday in mid-April but a short distance south from those Division 1 league semi-finals was a game of huge significance irrespective of the lower grade.

Clare grabbed their fourth win in Division 4 when they had six points to spare over Leitrim in Cusack Park yesterday.

Clare collected both points on offer in a game which saw four players sent off. The quartet — three form Waterford, one from Clare — received their marching orders for second yellow card offences.

CHAMPIONS Doonbeg recorded a Group One win over Ennistymon in the Clare SFC at Quilty on Saturday ( 3-9 to 1-7).

THE usual cliché after a game like yesterday’s Munster SFC tie in Páirc Uí Chaoimh is tougher tests ahead, so we’ll take it off the leash here for a run around.

Cork 1-23 Clare 0-11

Former Kildare footballer Niall Browne will make his Munster SFC debut when he lines out for Clare against Cork at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Sunday (throw-in 3.30pm).

Clare 5-10 London 0-4

CLARE secured their first brace of league points when they crushed Kilkenny in Saturday’s Allianz NFL Division Four tie at Miltown Malbay.

Kerry 0-13 Clare 1-17

CLARE claimed the spoils in this competitive McGrath Cup quarter-final at Cooraclare yesterday.

Offaly 2-18 Clare 1-18, O'Connor Park, Tullamore (after extra-time)

THE mantle of favouritism is one Waterford footballers are unaccustomed to holding entering championship clashes, but they managed to cope with that pressure effectively at a sweltering Fraher Field, Dungarvan yesterday.

Waterford 1-10 Clare 0-9, Dungarvan

Clare, Wicklow and Carlow impressed as they all delivered victories in Division 4 of the Allianz National Football League today.

KILKENNY 0-2 CLARE 4-18, Nowlan Park

Captain Paul Galvin and star forward Colm Cooper are back in the Kerry team for Sunday's Munster championship clash with Clare in Killarney.

Waterford 0-07 Clare 0-9

Clare team captain Michael O'Shea has lost his race to be fit for the Banner's Munster SFC quarter-final clash with Waterford on Sunday at Cusack Park (throw-in 3.30pm).

PAUDIE O’SULLIVAN, younger brother of full-back Diarmuid, will make his first start in this season’s League when Cork take on Galway in the semi-final at the Limerick Gaelic Grounds on Sunday.

Cork 0-15 Clare 0-11

Clare 0-11 Cork 0-14

Clare have won their first ever Bank of Ireland SFC qualifier as, helped by the sharp shooting of corner forwards Denis Russell (1-06) and Michael O’Dwyer (0-05), they brushed aside Sligo 1-15 to 1-07 at Cusack Park, Ennis to progress to round two.

THERE are four debutantes on the Cork Senior football team for Sunday’s Munster Championship semi-final against Kerry in Killarney.

Clare 1-14 Tipperary 1-10

DENIS BYRNE may be prepared to declare for Tipperary hurlers following the official sanction by Croke Park of his transfer to Mullinahone — but it’s not an immediate concern of manager Michael Doyle.

DONEGAL manager Brian McEniff is expected to name Finn Harps star Brendan Devenny when he selects his side later in the week for next Sunday’s Allianz NFL clash with Dublin at Ballyshannon.