Aaron Gillane: ‘Scary...you feel best in the world once you’ve scored’

Clare’s Peter Duggan and Limerick’s Aaron Gillane have defended the free-taking shootout which decided their league quarter-final on Monday evening.

Voted through at Special Congress last September to eliminate the need for a replay, it was decided that if a qualifier, knockout league fixture, or provincial club championship match remained deadlocked after two 10-minute and two five-minute periods of extra-time, then a free-taking competition would decide the winner.

It was previously employed for the Walsh Cup final meeting of Kilkenny and Wexford, back in January, as well as the O’Byrne Cup semi-final, involving Meath and Longford, that same month.