Podge Collins is looking forward to the challenge of representing the Clare footballers and hurlers at championship level this summer.

The footballers open their Munster SFC programme against Limerick on May 28th and the hurlers are out against Waterford the following weekend. Collins, who returned from long-term injury to win league medals with both teams, is pleased that hurling supremo Davy Fitzgerald has softened his stance to allow him to play both codes:

"I think the point of the hurling management is a very valid one and because of the commitment in the GAA at the moment you nearly want to focus your time on one panel," the Cratloe ace is quoted in The Irish Independent.

"It nearly is a full-time job. That's not saying a bad thing about it - I love playing it and wouldn't change a thing about it but you can see where they are coming from.

"I'll play it by ear and see how it goes and take it from there next year. When everything is going well no one in Clare will be giving out and none of the supporters will have a problem with it.

"We won both leagues and when you are winning everything is right and everything is happy. And when you are losing that's when people will get on to you and that's when it is a problem.

"You don't know what will happen in the championship, for now it's all happy and we'll see how we get on this year and take it from there. I won't be looking past the Limerick game and then the Waterford game."

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