Warning messages didn’t sink in, says Daly

THE silence in a desolate Clare dressing room was deafening and disbelieving players stared blankly ahead of them.

The defeat, the unexpected defeat, was one thing. The magnitude of it quite another.

To his eternal credit manager Anthony Daly made himself freely available to the media hacks wanting to know what had gone so desperately wrong for them. In truth the former All-Ireland winning captain didn’t have the answer.