Big match preview: Rebel momentum and pace set to end 19-year wait for Cork in final showdown with Clare
Shane O’Donnell of Clare is tackled by Eoin Downey of Cork during the Munster SHC clash at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh in April. Photo: Ray McManus/Sportsfile
When Tony Kelly landed and presented for interview at the GAA’s All-Ireland launch at the Michael Cusack Centre in his native Clare almost six weeks ago, his positivity in the context of what had happened in Thurles two days earlier was striking.
A third successive Munster final defeat to Limerick and their poorest performance of the three took some digesting. That pursuit of a Munster title, the one medal that eludes the quartet of Clare survivors from the 2013 All-Ireland final win – Kelly, Shane O’Donnell, John Conlon and Dave McInerney – felt like it might be ebbing. You wondered how, in their situation, would they pick up and go again.
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