Corcoran: We’ll have to convince boss to stay on

Sitting on a couple of stacked pews in Cusack Park’s covered stand tunnel, John Conlon and Niall Corcoran shot the breeze.

Their feet dangling off the side, they smiled and shrugged, looking nothing like the warriors who duelled 45 minutes earlier.

Friends since their charity trip to Ethiopia in January with Playing For Life, they caught up as one’s summer ended and the other’s was extended by at least a week. While Conlon was enjoying Clare’s first win in 10 Championship games, Corcoran rued a record of just one victory from Dublin’s 10 competitive fixtures this year.