Clare footballers finish off league bid with facile Limerick win
*Ciaran Russell. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’s senior footballers time in Division 2 has come to an end, for now, with a fifteen point win over Limerick.
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Eight new starters for Clare footballers
*Brendy Rouine is among the players getting a first start of the 2023 NFL. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill EIGHT CLARE footballers will make their first start of this year’s Allianz National Football League in what will be the county’s last outing in the competition.
Derry dent Clare’s hopes of staying in Division 2
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Clare’s seven-year stay in Division Two came to an end on Sunday when Kildare saw off Limerick after the Banner men fell to high flying Derry in Owenbeg.
O’Connor returns but O’Dea misses out as footballers fight to retain Division 2 status
*Cathal O’Connor returns from injury. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill COLM COLLINS has named his starting fifteen for Clare’s crunch tie with Derry this Sunday in the Allianz National Football League.
Siege mentality must return if Clare footballers are to remain in Division 2
*Stephen Ryan brings the ball away from goal. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill WHILE the siege mentality that we expected from Clare at the weekend never materialised, the Banner’s footballers will need to find their proven resilience and defiance over the final two rounds of the Allianz National Football League if they are to have any hope …
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‘No room left for error’ in uphill battle for Clare’s footballers to stay in Division 2
Eoin Cleary tries to scramble a pass together. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill THERE IS “no room left for error” among the Clare senior footballers as they face a massive battle to retain their status as a Division 2 side.
Relegation worries intensify as Clare footballers ship heaviest defeat of league campaign
*Pearse Lillis on the charge for Clare. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill IF CLARE ARE to continue in Division 2 of the Allianz National Football League, they must win their remaining two games and even that may not be enough.
‘We pipped Clare but didn’t have to push panic button’ says Dublin boss Dessie Farrell
*Dublin manager Dessie Farrell with Clare boss Colm Collins. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill DUBLIN senior football manager, Dessie Farrell has said they were not forced to reach for the panic button despite being pushed to the pin of their collar in Saturday’s Allianz National Football league clash with Clare.
Dublin loss ‘tough to take’ but Collins immensely proud of ‘top-class’ Clare effort
*Jamie Malone is tackled by James McCarthy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill THEY MATCHED DUBLIN for all of Saturday’s National Football League tie and led by six points with fifteen minutes remaining but Colm Collins and the Clare footballers were gutted to leave Croke Park with no points to show for their efforts.
Clare fall agonisingly short against Dublin
*Dermot Coughlan was one of Clare’s top performers. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’s senior footballers came agonisingly close to recording one of the results of the year against the kingpins of Dublin.
