An advert for a pre-Super 8s, pre-backdoor, old style provincial championships era. Clare, without getting to the Munster final since 1949, without a Munster title since 1917 facing Munster champions Kerry who were in the middle of (for them) a barren spell of six years since their last All-Ireland win.
It should be noted that, in the various seeded and lop-sided formats of the Munster championship, only eight out of two hundred and seventy-two footballs finals at minor, under 21 and senior hadn’t contained either Cork or Kerry. The championship draw for 1980 had even included a preliminary round involving Clare, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford with the winners meeting in a quarter-final to decide who would play Cork in the semi-final. The winners met Kerry who had direct entry to the final.
The rest is history.
You can watch highlights of the match here…
The press coverage, to some extent, reads like a different era. The Irish Press ran with the Clare win on it’s front page.
As did the Irish Independent:
Unsurprisingly, the Cork Examiner headline “Might of Kerry is well crushed” was not particularly sympathetic to Kerry:
But then, the Kerryman’s “The humiliation of Kerry”, was even more scathing:
However, the Kerryman, to be fair, was clear about the result:
For the record, here are the teams and scorers:
Kerry:
P. O’Leary
S. Stack, A. Gleeson, E. Breen
L. O’Flaherty, A. Burke, C. Murphy
N. O’Mahony, S. Moynihan
S. Geaney, T. Fleming, M. Fitzgerald
K. O’Dwyer, J. O’Shea, D. O’Shea
Clare:
J. Hanrahan
C. O’Mahony, G. Kelly, S. Clancy
C. O’Neill, JJ. Rouine, F. Griffin
T. Morrissey, A. Moloney
H. Roche, F. Mclnerney, G. Killeen
P. Conway, C. Clancy, M. Flynn.
FINAL SCORE
Clare 2-10 (C. Clancy 1-1, G. Killeen 0-4, M. Daly 1-0, P. Conway 0-2, F. McInerney 0-1, T. Morrissey 0-1, H. Roche 0-1)
Subs: M. Daly for C. O’Neill.
Kerry 0-12 (M. Fitzgerald 0-7, T. Fleming 0-1, C. Murphy 0-1, N. O’Mahony 0-1, D. O’Shea 0-1, J. O’Shea 0-1)
Subs: A. O’Donovan for K. O’Dwyer, P. Laide for S. Geaney, N. O’Leary for N. O’Mahony.
Referee: Paddy Russell (Tipperary)
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Sources: Irish Independent 20th July 1992, Irish Press 20th July 1992, Cork Examiner 20th July 1992, Kerryman, 24th July 1992.
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