Hiney says Dublin planning to press on after Cats licking

IT WOULD have to be said that the All-Ireland qualifiers – hurling and football – have failed to capture the imagination of the general GAA public.

And yet those same qualifiers can throw up some really attractive pairings. Take tomorrow’s hurling game between Dublin and Clare, for instance, part of a Croke Park double-header with the Dublin footballers also first out of the hat for their qualifier against Tipperary.

It’s a Leinster/Munster clash, but unlike the Tipperary romp against Wexford last weekend, this one has a bit of meat on it, and we’re not talking about the fact that Dublin are coached by Clare’s double All-Ireland winning captain, Anthony Daly, noteworthy as that may be.