Kieran Shannon: Sometimes it's not just about when you lose, but how you lose
Clare manager Colm Collins spikes to the media after their defeat to Mayo last weekend. Picture: Inpho/Laszlo Geczo
Last week, just days before Clare’s Division Two promotion playoff against Mayo, Fermanagh’s Seán Quigley paid a member of Colm Collins’ panel about the loftiest and loveliest compliment you can give an opponent.
In an interview that would have pleasantly appeased Tomás Ó Sé’s concern that current GAA players are now so loathe to express their true personalities, Quigley, as well as admitting “I’d rather be happy and healthy and able to go about my daily business than beating myself up about carrying half a stone”, talked colourfully about the two markers, both called Kevin, that he identified as the toughest he’d encountered.
