Clare escape turned Cork back on route to Croker

When your opening championship game of the summer is a 16-point hammering on home soil and your last is the All-Ireland final, it goes without saying that there came a turning point somewhere along the road.

For the Cork minor footballers, their season swung on an escape from Cusack Park, a result which was eked out little over a week after the aforementioned opening-day drubbing.