Launchpad to summer sizzler the big incentive for winners

Revenge for Cork, Clare three-from-three for 2013

The best spice is provided by the most recent events and in their three competitive meetings so far this year Clare have had the upper hand on Cork, won all three encounters.

First it was the Waterford Crystal Tournament (0-20 to 2-11), then the league (1-22 to 1-16), and most tellingly of all, the league relegation final (0-31 to 2-23, aet).