Clare reap the rewards of development system

Silverware in Tuesday’s Munster minor final (Thurles, 7.30pm) against a Cork team they beat by five points in the round-robin would of course further reaffirm the work being done

PATHWAY: Clare minor manager Brian O'Connell. Pic: INPHO/Tom Maher

Clare last managed back-to-back Munster minor hurling final appearances in 2010 and ‘11.

Those teams were loaded with current Clare seniors. Tony Kelly, Paul Flanagan, Cathal Malone, Eibhear Quilligan, Peter Duggan, Shane O’Donnell, and so on. “Generational-type hurlers”, as Brian Lohan recently described them.