Clare claim a game borrowed from the gods

Clare 5-16 Cork 3-16

Yes, Cork could have tied it up in the final minute, the ball just bouncing away from sub Cathal Naughton in a possible goal-scoring position, cleared by Seadna Morey and goaled at the other end by Darach Honan, but as in the drawn game three weeks ago, had Clare been denied it would have been an injustice.

Jimmy's young Rebels are good, an awful lot better than many of us gave them credit for earlier this year; Davy's even younger Banner-boys are better, late teenage sub Shane O'Donnell (19) the headline kid after this epic with his 3-3 from play.