Anthony Daly: Ballygunner on a mission they are perfectly equipped to complete
Pauric Mahony will have benefited from the break. INPHO/Tom Maher
Eight days before I started in my first Clare senior final for Clarecastle in 1989, I lined out with the Clarecastle U21 footballers against Doonbeg in a big championship match. Strange as it may sound, we had been going well in the big ball at that time. We’d won an U16A a few years previous but Doonbeg always saw any hurling club from the far side of Lisseycasey that had football notions about themselves as a legitimate target to put manners on.
As we expected, it was hot and heavy. It wasn’t ideal with a handful of us on the senior hurling team but we had to have a cut at the U21A championship because the football people in the club would have gone ape if we’d downed tools and not bothered.
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