David Reidy’s rally bags the points for resilient Clare

Clare 1-21 Tipperary 0-19: It being January and this being a Division 1A campaign unlike any that have gone before, this was a result that neither team will hang much on.

Clare will appreciate the two points, considering they are on the road for three of their remaining four round games and Tipperary might rue not pressing harder when their largely experimental side had levelled the game for the eighth time in the 57th minute.

Then again, few would quibble with the game finishing in the home team’s favour. With the wind advantage, Clare should have been further ahead than 0-13 to 0-10 at half-time and had held a five-point advantage by the 46th minute. Even after Tipperary equalised for a final time, the Banner found something more in themselves to create a cushion and, when David Reidy shot 1-1 in injury-time there were nods across the 6,277 that justice had been served.