Five members of Clare hurling panel let go as focus switches to 2026
*Patrick Crotty. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. FIVE MEMBERS of the Clare senior hurling panel have been dropped as attention begins to switch to next year’s campaign.
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Clare keeper Quilligan to undergo surgery on injured knee this week
*Eibhear Quilligan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE GOALKEEPER Eibhear Quilligan undergoes surgery this week.
‘Cork are favourites but it could go either way’ – Lohan says All-Ireland final is too tight to call
*Tipperary manager Liam Cahill with Clare manager Brian Lohan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. REIGNING All-Ireland winning manager Brian Lohan says Sunday’s final between the “traditional superpowers” Cork and Tipperary is too hard to call.
Lohan: early indicators positive on all experienced Clare players returning & wide net will be cast during club campaign
*Brian Lohan. Photograph: Ruth Griffin CLARE senior hurling manager, Brian Lohan has said the early indications are that all of the county’s outgoing panel will make themselves available for next season.
‘We’ve had fantastic days under his leadership’ – Lohan given additional three year term as Clare boss
*Brian Lohan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill BRIAN LOHAN has been given a new three-year term as Clare senior hurling manager with delegates unanimously endorsing the extension of his tenure stating “we have had fantastic days under his leadership”.
‘If he wants to stay he will’ – seventh season likely for Lohan
*Clare senior hurling manager, Brian Lohan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. THERE has been no communication with Clare’s senior hurling panel on the future of Brian Lohan as manager, one of the side’s star players has admitted.
‘It was vital that we never let Clare in front’ – Tipp boss Cahill
*Brian Lohan and Liam Cahill. Photograph: Ruth Griffin. NO LEAD is safe in the game of hurling anymore, Tipperary manager Liam Cahill said after withstanding a Clare comeback in the latest round of the Munster SHC.
‘I did not walk off the Clare panel, I was willing, ready & able to line out’ – McCarthy speaks out
*Aidan McCarthy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE HURLER, Aidan McCarthy was dropped from the county senior hurling panel before Saturday’s loss to Tipperary.
‘We expected to do better but we didn’t’ – Lohan
*Brian Lohan looks on during Saturday’s loss to Tipperary. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE are “completely dependent” on other results to save their season, manager Brian Lohan has acknowledged.
Tipperary leave Clare’s All-Ireland title defence hanging by a thread
*Eoghan Connolly fouls Ryan Taylor. Photograph: Ruth Griffin. CLARE’S All-Ireland title defence is hanging by a thread after a second championship defeat of the year and a seventh so far in 2025.