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Kieran Shannon: Firm pitches and happier marriages... the split-season's pay-off

Though there are things we lose too, Clare has been a microcosm of the new calendar's benefits. 
LOFT IT: Clonlara's John Conlon and Sixmilebridge's Jason Loughnane during the Clare SHC quarter final at Cusack Park on Sunday. Picture : Eamon Ward

LOFT IT: Clonlara's John Conlon and Sixmilebridge's Jason Loughnane during the Clare SHC quarter final at Cusack Park on Sunday. Picture : Eamon Ward

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When Clare beat Cork after an All-Ireland final replay in 2013, their county board didn’t so much run a club championship as race one off.

The county senior quarter-finals were played on Oct 19, the semi-finals in the wind and rain and shit of early November, the county final itself just a week later.

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<p>There has been a one-week gap between the All-Ireland hurling and football finals since 2020. Pic: ©INPHO/Tom O’Hanlon</p>

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