Kieran Shannon: When it comes to Cork as a venue, Clare have lost that loving feeling

If that Clare team bus is to see Croke Park later in the summer, it first has to come out of Cork with a result on Sunday.

LOST THAT LOVING FEELING: Playing in Cork brought the masses from Clare but not anymore. Pic: Ray McManus/Sportsfile

When it came to a game worthy of opening the new Páirc Uí Chaoimh, it seemed fitting, even serendipitous, that the 2017 All Ireland quarter-final draw threw up a pairing that used to electrify the old one: Clare-Tipp.

Twenty years earlier the same ground had quaked when those sides shot out from the tunnel of the old stadium.