So much for Super Sunday. The final day Munster Championship group stages turned out to be a collapsed soufflé of an afternoon, with Cork scattering a hopeless Tipp side in Thurles and Clare rinsing an equally barren Waterford in Ennis. A round of games that began with every team having something to play for turned out to have people checking the soccer scores by half-time. The hurling certainly had no mysteries left to reveal.
In Ennis, Clare were able to keep Tony Kelly and John Conlon confined to barracks and still emerge with 12 points to spare over Waterford. Another pair of dazzling displays by Shane O’Donnell and Peter Duggan had them flashing over scores from all points on the globe, while Rory Hayes and Conor Cleary went on manners-teaching patrol in defence. By the end, t …
- May 23, 2022
