‘There’s a certain amount of media that love analysing the Tipperary psyche’

It might be 15 years on from Clare’s last Championship win over Tipperary, but the trauma stays with Brian O’Meara.

Captain at the time, the memory of the helplessness felt at half-time, 11 points back, hasn’t left him.

“There was a sense that there was no way back for us, really. There was a lot of shouting and intensity, but there wasn’t any reality behind it. We were a lame duck.”