{"id":512691,"date":"2026-06-22T14:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/512691\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T14:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:20:12","slug":"anthony-daly-wins-for-cork-and-clare-means-it-was-a-worrying-weekend-for-leinster-hurling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/512691\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Daly: Wins for Cork and Clare means it was a worrying weekend for Leinster hurling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"> Even now, 34 years on, I still vividly recall the giddiness and excitement I felt going to the 1992 All-Ireland football semi-final between Clare and Dublin. It was completely unchartered territory for the footballers but also alien territory for any Clare supporters. The Clare hordes from every nook and cranny of the county descended on Dublin that weekend like the Scottish Tartan Army took over Boston last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Clare just didn\u2019t reach All-Ireland semi-finals, in any grade. The minor hurlers had been there twice, in 1981 and 1989, but nobody expected to be going there following the seniors. I had already three years senior experience but I made the absolute most of the footballers\u2019 visit to Croke Park in 1992 because I never expected to see that stage as a player.<\/p>\n<p>This is exclusive subscriber content. Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/login\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IE Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4976285_1_org_Irish_Examiner_modal.png\" width=\"340\" height=\"41\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t    \tUnlimited access starts here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">Try from only  \u20ac0.25 a day.<\/p>\n<p>Cancel anytime<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;font-size: 18px;line-height: 22px;padding-left: 10px;padding-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/maintopics\/cork-sport_topic-5206315.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A collection<\/a> of the latest sports news, reports and analysis from Cork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even now, 34 years on, I still vividly recall the giddiness and excitement I felt going to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[177329,30041,2110,1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-512691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-championship-2026","tag-clare-gaa","tag-cork-sport","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}