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.
Six members of the Clare Senior Hurling panel have been included in the starting team for the County’s clash with Waterford in the semi-final of the U21 Munster Hurling Championship.
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.