Clare footballers no longer interested in morale victories – Madden
*Clare senior football manager, Paul Madden. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. MORALE VICTORIES are of no interest to Clare’s footballers in 2026, senior manager Paul Madden has stressed.
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Clare player ratings vs Down: Coughlan the chief performer but Banner let win slip
*Dermot Coughlan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE showed they were more than capable of beating Down but let the opportunity to do so slip through the fingers to start their Division 3 bid with a five point loss.
Ten point swing sees Clare downed in league opener
*Brian McNamara in possession. CLARE’s bright start to their 2026 National Football League campaign was not enough to overcome Down in Newry with a dip in performance in the second half depriving Paul Madden of a winning start as manager.
Down opener won’t define Clare’s football year says Madden
*Clare senior football manager, Paul Madden. Photograph: Ruth Griffin CLARE’s opening outing against Down in the Allianz National Football League will not define the county’s season according to new manager, Paul Madden.
‘Our target is a league final’ says new Clare captain Rouine
*Clare captain Cillian Rouine. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE will be without newly appointed captain Cillian Rouine for Saturday’s opening round of the Allianz National Football League but the Lahinch man says it is “a massive honour” to be selected as the new skipper and hailed the new management which is comprised of “good Clare people …
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League fixtures confirmed for Clare’s hurlers & footballers
*Clare’s Peter Duggan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE’s Allianz hurling and football league campaigns will begin on the last weekend in January.
From Hype to Hindsight: The Peter Keane Experiment in Clare
*Clare in 2026 will have a fourth manager of the senior footballers in as many years. PETER KEANE’s tenure as Clare senior football manager ended officially on Sunday, but it should have come to a halt long before then.
Lessons from the league: Clare football side coming together but big championship scalp needed
*Clare’s contingent of Dermot Coughlan, Ciaran Downes, Peter Keane, Keelan Sexton & Ikem Ugwueru. CHAMPIONSHIP is just a week away, the early season silverware has been handed out in the National Leagues, Clare were empty-handed in this regard but The Clare Echo’s Head of News & Sport, Páraic McMahon examines what can we learn from …
‘We take real pride in performing in Cusack Park’ – Clare captain Brennan
*Clare captain, Cillian Brennan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE’s footballers take “a huge sense of pride” in playing in Cusack Park and in winning all home games in the 2025 Allianz National Football League.
Clare player ratings vs Offaly: Rouine revels in move to centre-back
*Clare’s Cillian Rouine offloads possession. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. DIVISION 3 awaits Clare’s senior footballers for the third successive season despite their five point win over Offaly in the final round, Páraic McMahon rates the performances of the twenty players in saffron and blue to feature in this outing.