Mike Quirke: Clare and Tipperary display the indomitable spirit of the underdog

So what do you know? Maybe Munster isn’t the lopsided battleground that everybody thought it was. 

Provincial minnows Clare and Tipperary continue to make noise and completed a remarkable double over Roscommon and Derry respectively last Saturday to qualify for their first All-Ireland senior football championship quarter-finals in Croke Park.

The victory produced so many storylines…