Overcoming Cork in Páirc Uí Chaoimh a turning point in Clare’s season
*Clare selector, Ken Ralph. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill KEN RALPH made a prediction in April that the team to overcome Cork would win the All-Ireland senior hurling championship.
*Clare selector, Ken Ralph. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill KEN RALPH made a prediction in April that the team to overcome Cork would win the All-Ireland senior hurling championship.
*Senior hurling liaison officer Martin O’Brien and Clare GAA Head of Operations Deirdre Murphy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE GAA has received an allocation of 16,000 tickets for the All-Ireland SHC final while the organisation will hold two fundraising functions in advance of the decider and plans have been unveiled to utilise Caherlohan as a community …
*Tony Kelly gets away from Walter Walsh. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE CAPTAIN Tony Kelly never felt that Saturday’s All-Ireland semi-final game was gone from them.
*Ryan Taylor offloads the ball under pressure from David Blanchfield. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill NOT ALONE was Ryan Taylor’s return a huge boost for him, his family and Clare supporters but it was also a turning point in the game in helping his county qualify for the All-Ireland senior hurling final.
*Clare senior hurling manager, Brian Lohan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE manager, Brian Lohan says there is a feeling that their year was only starting after beating Wexford in the All-Ireland SHC quarter-final while he pointed out beating Kilkenny in the National Hurling League final was a huge help in overcoming the Cats in Saturday’s All-Ireland …
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*Ian Galvin gets away from Richie Reid. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE “won all the battles,” Kilkenny manager Derek Lyng pointed out while reflecting on Saturday’s All-Ireland semi-final.
*Clare GAA Chairman Kieran Keating presents the FutureTicketing Clare Cup to Mikey McInerney. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Newmarket-on-Fergus were deservingly crowned Future Ticketing Clare cup senior hurling league champions at Clarecastle this Friday evening when they proved too strong for Inagh/Kilnamona.
*John Carmody. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FINISHING their Glen Dimplex All-Ireland senior camogie championship campaign means a hell of a lot to Clare, manager John Carmody insisted.
*Photograph: Brian Arthur AFTER months of planning the Arnold Palmer cup week at Lahinch has arrived.
*David Fitzgerald. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’s hurlers have been spurred on by the feeling of not giving the best account of themselves when losing out in the Munster final to Limerick.