Meaney makes Clare team in only change for Down game
*Connor Meaney. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. PETER Keane and his management team have made one change to the Clare side for Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC first round game in Group 3.
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Clare footballers discover potential All-Ireland opponents
*Ciarán Downes in action against Meath’s Harry Higgins. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE have discovered their potential opponents in the All-Ireland senior football championship.
Promotion back to Division 2 essential to develop Clare football
*Daniel Walsh executes a pass. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’s senior football side need to secure promotion in next year’s Allianz National Football League if they are to aspire of competing in the Sam Maguire.
Drubbing from Donegal ends Clare’s involvement in football championship
*Manus Doherty’s first half goal chance is stopped. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill DONEGAL have dumped Clare out of the All-Ireland SFC as the Ulster champions dished out a hammering on Saturday afternoon.
Stephen Ryan to miss out on Clare’s crunch tie with Donegal
*Stephen Ryan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’s senior footballers are to be without vice-captain and first-choice goalkeeper Stephen Ryan for Saturday’s crunch All-Ireland SFC clash with Ulster champions Donegal.
Date with Donegal sends Clare to Castlebar
*Emmet McMahon is one of six members of the Clare team to have started in last year’s game. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FOR THE SECOND year in a row, Clare and Donegal will do battle in the All-Ireland SFC.
‘There’s still a place in All-Ireland championship’ says captain Brennan
*Cillian Brennan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill “THERE IS still a place in the All-Ireland championship for us,” insisted Clare senior football captain Cillian Brennan in the wake of a disappointing fourteen point loss to Tyrone.
Footage will determine if Clare appeal Bohannon sending off
*Darragh Bohannon. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE will review the footage of Darragh Bohannon’s late sending off before considering if it is worth appealing the dismissal.
Missing ‘easy frees’ & conceding ‘soft goals’ costly for Clare against Tyrone – Fitzgerald
*Clare manager, Mark Fitzgerald. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill MISSED CHANCES and an abysmal finish were rued by Clare senior football manager Mark Fitzgerald as the county fell to their third successive loss in the championship.
Tyrone topple Clare in Omagh
*Clare’s Dermot Coughlan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’s senior footballers suffered a successive defeat in the All-Ireland SFC, losing out to Tyrone by a margin of fourteen points.
