'I think anyone in a county set up at the moment would take that swap, losing the League final and then winning the first round of the Championship.'
Silverware is a rare commodity for Clare but returning hero Shane O’Donnell insists that a win over Limerick will be a far bigger prize than just their fifth ever League title.
“We’ve kind of talked about it as well, if we looked back to 2016, the last time that Clare won the League, and then we went out in the first round of the Championship and we lost. “We’ve had to deal with a lot of disappointment from Kilkenny so we were very focused. The players have been working really hard for the last while and sometimes you get reward for your work and sometimes you don’t. We got that little bit of reward today.
O’Donnell, making his first League appearance in three years, played a neat one-two with David Reidy less than a minute into the second half en route to David Fitzgerald hitting Clare’s second goal. Kilkenny’s scoring efficiency shot up in the second half, in which they had just one wide. They hit the next three points after McCarthy’s goal and had all the momentum when Eoin Cody shot to the net in the 65th minute.
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