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CLOSE to half an hour after the game was wrapped and packaged, Tony Considine and Justin McCarthy emerged from their dressingrooms into the windswept hall at the back of the stand at precisely the same time.
Though Waterford dropped their first two points of the league in Ennis, McCarthy wasn’t too vexed. “It was a bit of a lottery out there. Anything could happen and we’re not going to get carried away by the result.”
At the other end of the coridoor, Considine was in bullish mood af- ter his first win in front of a Clare crowd. Having briefly tipped his hat to Clare’s performance “delighted with it,’ he said, he then let rip with a 90 second statement that sounded like bullets flying out of a machine gun.
‘As I said the last day we didn’t get too excited about losing to Wexford,
but no doubt some people here made out we did,’ Considine said with a fixed gaze.
“Some people might have a lot of different opinions to us as well. Some gutter press in Clare, that I don’t re- ally appreciate and I think they have different agendas to what we have. And it’s absolutely a shame.”
Towering a few inches above the press posse and with the wind buf- feting his hair, Considine could have passed for a fearsome Moses bellow- ing the ten commandments down to his people from Mount Sinai.
“I thought the gutter press was de- cided for a different code in a dif- ferent country. I didn’t think it was decided in our own county, by gut- ter journalism as well. Of the high- est order. And that’s all I have to say lads.”
Considine turned his back then returned defiantly to the dressing room.
Down at the Waterford end, McCa- rthy teased the game out a little more than his Clare counterpart.
“It’s just one of these things that Clare were maybe a bit stronger on the day and that’s how it went.
I’m not too worried about it. Two more games in the league. And this is the league, not the championship.”
Both sit level now. Four points each from a possible six. Considine, though, was intent on taking every ounce of momentum from Clare’s Ate