*Colm Collins and Eoin Cleary at the final whistle. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE CAPTAIN, Eoin Cleary is hopeful their historic win over Cork will be referenced as an inspiration for future county footballers.
*Martin Donnelly congratulates Colm Collins at the final whistle. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill COLM COLLINS has described Clare’s win over Cork in the Munster SFC as “massive” and the biggest of his tenure as county senior football boss.
*Keelan Sexton and Eoin Cleary celebrate. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE HAVE defeated Cork in the Munster SFC for the first time since 1997.
Cillian Rouine. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill COLM COLLINS and his management team have named the Clare team to take on Cork in Sunday’s Munster SFC quarter-final.
*Jamie Malone is expected to move to the half-back line in the absence of Cian O’Dea. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill SELECTIONS around the middle third are among the main selection headaches for Colm Collins and his management team for Sunday’s Munster SFC quarter-final with Cork.
*Clare midfielder Darragh Bohannon. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill The Clare senior footballers finished their league campaign with a flourish after a comprehensive and confidence boosting victory against near neighbours Limerick, in Cusack Park last Sunday.
*Cian O’Dea. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CIAN O’DEA is to miss Clare’s potentially season defining Munster senior football quarter-final against Cork.
*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.
*Keelan Sexton. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill ON SUNDAY in Owenbeg the Clare senior footballers suffered defeat at the hands of Derry, one of the in-form teams in the country, consigning them to Division 3 for the first time since 2016.
*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.
