Corner back Martin McMahon says Clare are "brimming with confidence" ahead of their first-ever All-Ireland SFC quarter-final appearance.

The Banner County will lock horns with Munster champions Kerry at Croke Park this Sunday, having seen off Division One side Roscommon at Salthill last weekend:

"You saw it there: This side is brimming with confidence," McMahon told The Irish Examiner after the Rossies had been accounted for. "We are playing well. We had no notions coming into this. We knew Roscommon were going to be tough and that they played good football and that's how it turned out.

"They brought it back to three points, but it would have been another thing if they had been dominating the second half. Their goal came from one of our mistakes and that's the way we looked at it.

"Everyone was in it together. We were, maybe, shooting from that 40-yard line, where, with the wind, even though it is easier to pop them over, you should still take three or four steps to settle down. We're happy, though. It's a great privilege, a great honour."

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