The inside line of Clifford, Geaney, O’Donoghue — someone will surely inflict a C-GOD abbreviation on them before long — has a breadth of promise about it.

Clare 0-15 Limerick 0-13: THERE were but fleeting mentions of Cork.

A joyous red tide of humanity on the pitch afterwards, the skirl of the bagpipes, the Bould Thady Quill rambling and roving and the silverware being hoisted by — naturally — the home captain.

IN early 1977, near where Duhallow and East Kerry are split by the River Blackwater, a small hostelry hosted a low-key meeting with grand ambitions.