Successive league defeat for Clare hurlers
*Photograph: Burren Eye Photography CLARE HAVE suffered back to back defeats in the Allianz National Hurling League.
*Photograph: Burren Eye Photography CLARE HAVE suffered back to back defeats in the Allianz National Hurling League.
2013 All-Ireland winner and All Star, Colm Galvin has announced his retirement from inter-county hurling.
CLARE senior hurling manager, Brian Lohan has said the GAA will need to revise having no maor foirne at inter-county level and the ‘rushed’ format currently in place for the championship.
*Limerick’s Dan Morrissey is sandwiched between Clare duo Mark Rodgers and David Reidy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill LIMERICK’S nine point win over Clare will have “no significance” for future meetings between the counties in 2022, John Kiely maintained.
*Patrick Crotty and Barry Nash watch as the sliotar flies by. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill PLENTY OF LEARNINGS will be taken from Clare’s disappointing nine-point loss to Limerick in the final of the Co-Op Superstores Munster Hurling Cup.
CLARE’S bid to claim their first piece of silverware under Brian Lohan will have to wait for another day.
*Ryan Taylor. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill RYAN TAYLOR will make his first appearance of the year for the Clare senior hurlers in the only confirmed change to the starting team for Sunday’s Munster Hurling Cup final.
*Cian Lynch and Diarmuid Ryan in action. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill 3,000 extra tickets have been made available for Sunday’s Co-Op Superstores Munster Senior Hurling Cup final.
*Brian Lohan watches on as Clare begin 2022 with a win. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill LONG-TERM injuries to Tony Kelly and Aidan McCarthy have offered a new opportunity for Clare panellists to grab a chance.
*Mike Gough looks for an offload. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill INTRODUCING new players is the primary aim for Clare in the Munster Hurling Cup, manager Brian Lohan has said.