“If Clare win Saturday, they are firmly back into the melting pot”  — Carey

Ciaran Carey and Jason Byrne join Shane to preview Clare v Dublin in the All-Ireland SHC quarter-final at the Gaelic Grounds.

Click play on the video above, and see below for form guides and more.

GALWAY, TIPPERARY, CLARE, DUBLIN SEEK SEMI-FINAL SLOTS
Limerick and Kilkenny will discover on Saturday who their All-Ireland semi-finals
opponents will be when the quarterfinals are played in TUS Gaelic Grounds, Limerick.

It’s Clare v Dublin at 4.00pm and Galway v Tipperary at 6.15pm.

GALWAY v TIPPERARY
Galway arrive in the quarterfinals as Leinster runners-up (to Kilkenny) while Tipperary
finished third in Munster and clinched a place in the quarter-finals with a big win over
Offaly last Saturday.

Galway and Tipperary last met in the championship in 2020 when the Tribesmen won a quarter-final by two points.

PATHS TO THE QUARTER-FINALS
GALWAY

• Galway 0-24 Wexford 2-12
• Galway 1-25 Kilkenny 0-28
• Galway 6-33 Westmeath 0-17
• Galway 5-29 Antrim 1-22
• Galway 1-25 Dublin 2-22
• Kilkenny 4-21 Galway 2-26 (Leinster final)
  Played 6, Won 3, Drew 2, Lost 1.

TOP SCORERS

1. Evan Niland…………..0-60 (0-34 frees, 0-4‘65s’)
2. Conor Whelan………..6-11
3. Kevin Cooney…………..2-12
4. Brian Concannon………2-11
5. Conor Cooney……….0-10
6. Declan McLoughlin…1-7

TIPPERARY

• Tipperary 5-22 Clare 3-23
• Cork 4-19 Tipperary 2-25
• Tipperary 0-25 Limerick 0-25
• Waterford 1-24 Tipperary 0-21
• Tipperary 7-38 Offaly 3-18 (Preliminary All-Ireland quarter-final)
  Played 5, Won 2, Drew 2, Lost 1.

TOP SCORERS

1. Jason Forde…………….4-21 (0-13 frees, 1-1 s/l, 1-0 pen, 0-3 ‘65s’)
2. Jake Morris…………….2-19
3. Mark Kehoe……………4-12
4. Gearoid O’Connor…..1-18 (0-14 frees)
5. Noel McGrath…………0-15 (0-4 frees, 0-3 ‘65s’, 0-01 s/l)

CLARE v DUBLIN
Clare were runners-up (to Limerick) in Munster while Dublin finished third in Leinster and earned a place in the quarterfinal with a win over Joe McDonagh Cup champions Carlow last Saturday.

Clare and Dublin last met in the championship in 2012 when the Banner won a qualifier.

PATHS TO THE QUARTER-FINALS
CLARE

1. Tipperary 5-22 Clare 3-23
2. Clare 1-24 Limerick 2-20
3. Clare 2-22 Waterford 0-16
4. Clare 2-22 Cork 3-18
5. Limerick 1-23 Clare 1-22 (Munster final)
   Played 5, Won 3, Lost 2

TOP SCORERS

1. Tony Kelly……………….2-28 (0-10 frees, 1-0 pen, 0-1 ‘65’)
2. Aidan McCarthy………1-27 (0-15 frees, 0-3 ‘65s’)
3. Mark Rodgers…………..3-6 (0-1 s/l)
4. Shane O’Donnell……….0-8
5. Ian Galvin…………………1-5

DUBLIN

• Antrim 1-19 Dublin 1-19
• Dublin 2-23 Westmeath 1-14
• Dublin 1-22 Wexford 0-23
• Kilkenny 0-27 Dublin 0-21
• Dublin 2-22 Galway 1-25
• Dublin 2-25 Carlow 0-21 (Preliminary quarter-final)
  Played 6, Won 3, Drew 2, Lost 1

TOP SCORERS

1. Donal Burke………..2-59 (0-47 frees, 903 ‘65s’)
2. Cian O’Sullivan……3-11 (0-1 free, 0-1 s/l)
3. Danny Sutcliffe…….1-10
4. Cian Boland………1-7
5. Mark Grogan……..1-7