Anthony Daly: 'Ger Loughnane pumped his fist and stirred the crowd into a craze'

At the end of 1997, the Clare squad were at another All-Ireland function when I approached a few of the boys, posing a question where the potential answer was certainly a concern deep in the recesses of my mind.
“Hi, your man (Ger Loughnane) is kinda delaying his commitment to staying on,” I said. I was anxious for an answer so I only saw one way of getting it. “We’ll go down and doorstep him,” I said. “We’ll ask him straight out.”