Cork and Clare at crossroads

Last Friday there was a press evening for the Cork hurlers ahead of Sunday’s Munster SHC semi-final.

Odd how often Cork and Clare have clashed at watershed moments in the development of each other’s hurling sides.

In the mid-seventies, when Clare threatened to make the breakthrough with that Justin McCarthy-trained side which featured Ger Loughnane, among others, it was Cork who held them in check.