All Star accolades for Conlon & O’Donnell
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill JOHN Conlon and Shane O’Donnell have won their second All Star awards.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill JOHN Conlon and Shane O’Donnell have won their second All Star awards.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill MARK RODGERS and Adam Hogan have been nominated for Young Hurler of the Year while Clare has received a total of nine All Star nominees.
Steven Conway. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FEAKLE began their Clare SHC bid on a high, overcoming last year’s beaten finalists Éire Óg by two points.
*Feakle’s Shane McGrath. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FEAKLE are tired of “hard luck stories” and the East Clare club are targeting a return to the knockout stages of the TUS Clare SHC for the first time since 2020.
*Shane O’Donnell latches onto possession. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill 2023 was another rollercoaster year for Clare hurlers. After a home loss to Tipperary, it looked as though we may struggle to qualify as one of the three to progress from Munster. However, our players showed resilience and a lot of quality to end up topping the …
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*Players keep their eyes fixed on the sliotar during the All-Ireland SHC semi-final. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’S bid to reach the All-Ireland senior hurling final for the first time in a decade came up agonisingly short against a battle-hardened Kilkenny.
*Clare’s Adam Hogan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Clare defender Adam Hogan felt that he should have got a free in the dying moments of a dramatic Munster final against Limerick but doesn’t blame referee Liam Gordon for missing it.
*Darragh O’Donovan is put under pressure by Shane O’Donnell. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill According to Clarecastle’s Fergie Tuohy, one of the stars of Clare Munster and All-Ireland winning teams in the nineties, “there are some similarities between our win in ‘95 and this season, not least the weather. The sun shone in ‘95 as it is …
*Conor Cleary leaves Cusack Park in agony. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE FULL BACK, Conor Cleary is in the reckoning to get a starting jersey for Sunday’s Munster senior hurling final.
*Cathal Malone battles with Tom Morrissey. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill After last year’s classic, this was the Munster Final we all wanted repeated in 2023.