A year older, a year wiser for Clare's Gerry O’Connor

“You have got to put a product together for people to buy. Maybe last year we didn’t put together a great product. Whereas, this year we feel we have a reasonable product to sell and the customers are coming to buy.”

Gerry O’Connor is talking shop and if there was an advertisement for the new and improved product that is Clare hurling this summer it was Shane O’Donnell’s point after a shuddering shoulder on Barry Coughlan in their Munster SHC Round 2 game in Ennis.

Since then, the consumers have been happy. A price couldn’t be put on what their team conjured up to see off Tipperary in Semple Stadium.