Quinn determined to bridge the glory gap

SOME days it seems like only yesterday. Other times it feels like a lifetime ago. These are the conflicting emotions in Clare when memories of the great All-Ireland Final winning days of 1995 and 1997 are recalled.

The cold fact is, however, it was a long time ago. A decade has almost passed since that last All-Ireland championship success, a win that was to herald a new era in Clare hurling, and yet since then, nothing.

A few of the heroes from those two campaigns are still there, the veteran five — Davy Fitzgerald, Brian and Frank Lohan, Seanie McMahon and Colin Lynch — but it’s time now, surely, for the rest of this team to step forward, claim their own reward, before talk of another famine starts to kick in.