Daly: We can run or stand up and be counted

STUNNED is the first word that comes to mind, and it’s as good as any to describe the reaction in Clare yesterday to the humiliating Munster Championship exit at the hands of rampant Waterford.

None felt the shock more severely, more personally, than those in the eye of the storm, the players, the manager, the selectors.

“If you wrote away for a nightmare, you couldn’t have got worse,” said Fr Harry Bohan, one of those selectors.