Cork boss Kieran Kingston wasn’t getting carried away at his team’s progress after pointing out that “the obituaries were written for the whole group” only three weeks earlier.
A defeat to Clare that was far more convincing than the final two-point margin might suggest put Cork on the brink of an early elimination after reaching last year’s All-Ireland final before wins on the road against Waterford and now Tipperary have rebooted their season.
But Kingston said: “What have we done? we've got out of Munster, that's it. Our objective was to get to a Munster final, we haven't done that, we got out of Munster and it's no more than that, we're certainly not going to get carried away.
