Mulcair: We need to push on in Munster

YOU thought conditions at the Clare senior hurling final were bad on Sunday last?

Forget it, says former Crusheen stalwart Andy Mulcair: “When we played Newmarket in the 1974 final it was worse – during the parade the water came in over my boots!”

Nevertheless, it was bad, so bad that even Crusheen manager Michael Browne, guiding his side to back-to-back titles, was moved to remark that when it came to quality hurling the soaked attendance witnessed only “a few outbreaks of it here and there.”