No crowing from Clare as Colm Collins takes win in stride

At first, Colm Collins was breezily viewing it as “just two points”.

He was “delighted” to have them but that’s all they were. He was in pure league managerial mode, talking about how there was “still a lot of football to be played in this division”, how Clare would need more points to be sure of avoiding relegation, and how all that mattered now was their next game away to Fermanagh.

When it was put to him though that this was more than just your average win some Sunday in March, given Cork have been one of Clare’s two great oppressors for generations, Collins conceded it probably was. He referenced a game in Kilmallock when David Tubridy and Joe Hayes beat Cork as minors and how that had been “a great night”.