Anthony Daly: It was a matter of ‘can we keep these boys down for another year?’ Eventually, we couldn’t

The Doora-Barefield man instantly fanned the flame and got it flickering in our minds again.

St Joseph’s midfielder Ollie Baker, left, and Clarecastle’s Anthony Daly battle for possession in the Clare SHC semi-final at Shannon in 1999. Despite defeat, Daly remembers it as ‘one of the best games I ever played in’. Picture: Maurice O’Mahony

In my role as community champion of the Clare Covid-19 Community Response Forum, we had a photo shoot in Ennis a couple of weeks back with a number of stakeholders, including many of the GAA clubs and their representatives from around the county.