*Clare GAA Chairman, Kieran Keating. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE GAA’s efforts to challenge the eligibility requirements of senior inter-county players also lining out at U20 has been defeated.
*Cian Lynch and Limerick will be more difficult to stop in 2023. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill AHEAD OF THE start of this year’s hurling championship in Munster and Leinster, Darach Honan gives his power rankings to indicate how each county is prepared for the action.
*Aidan McCarthy scored from a penalty in Clare’s challenge match versus Galway. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’S SENIOR hurlers are continuing their preparations for the first round of the Munster championship.
*Sean Rynne hit the all-important equaliser for Clare. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Bemoaning their lack of injury-time luck in 2022, Clare certainly tested their newfound fortune to its optimum when firing the last three points to snatch their second successive draw of the Munster Under 20 Championship in TUS Gaelic Grounds on Wednesday evening.
*Clare defender John Conneally. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’S U20 hurlers look to record their first win in two years and a first over a tier one county since 2015 when they make the short journey to Limerick this evening (Wednesday).
*Ronan O’Connor bats the ball away. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE AND TIPPERARY had to settle for a share of the spoils in the opening round of the Munster U20 hurling championship.
*Patrick Crotty. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill TERENCE FAHY’s Clare U20 team to take on Tipperary in the first round of the Munster championship has been named.
*Adam Hogan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. THE RACE for what is predicted to be one of the most competitive Munster under 20 hurling championships for some time begins for Clare on Saturday as they take on Tipperary.
*Clare’s Rory Hayes. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE DEFENDER, Rory Hayes is a major injury doubt for the county’s opening round of the Munster SHC.
*John Conlon holds off Corey Byrne Dunbar. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’s senior hurlers brought one hell of a kick as they recorded their largest ever National Hurling League win over Wexford.