Taaffe schooled in Galway but Clare to the core

Growing up, Eamonn Taaffe’s life was defined by difference. What made him as a Clare native this and what made them, those from over the Galway border that backs onto his family house, that.

The demarcation lines still hold true today in Tubber although there has been little in the way of hype about Sunday’s All-Ireland quarter-final. A sales representative with Roches Feeds and a veterinary company, his work sees him traverse the county boundaries several times during the week.

“It’s very quiet even though I was with a customer who said it would be like a death in the family if Galway beat us.”