Getting over Limerick was an enormous monkey off the back of the Clare Senior Hurlers as they made the All-Ireland quarter-finals for the first time in three years.
Clare had a victory to remember over Laois on Sunday in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship as they took the lead for the first time in the last minute of normal time to hold on for a one point win.
Bittersweet was one way to describe Mick Lillis’ emotions after he saw Clare dump his Laois side out of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in Ennis on Sunday.
By reaching the quarter-finals of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Davy Fitzgerald is fulfilling the ambitions he had when he took over the role of Clare manager.
