Cratloe’s bouncebackability test beckons
*Sean Collins. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Cratloe’s latest dual senior championship tilt appeared to be going swimmingly until last Friday’s spanner in the works.
*Sean Collins. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Cratloe’s latest dual senior championship tilt appeared to be going swimmingly until last Friday’s spanner in the works.
*Jack Hannan is among the dual-players with St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Details of dates for the domestic hurling and football championships dominated matters at the July meeting of Clare GAA which took place at Hotel Woodstock on Tuesday night.
*Colm Collins and Eoin Cleary celebrate beating Cork in this year’s Munster SFC. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Last Saturday evening’s loss to Derry in Pearse Park, Longford signalled the end of Clare’s involvement in the race for Sam Maguire for 2023.
*Colm Collins in Croke Park. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’S FINAL outing in this year’s All-Ireland SFC also marked Colm Collins’ last game in charge of the county, this was the main discussion of our latest episode of The Water Break.
*Colm Collins. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill COLM COLLINS has stepped down as manager of the Clare senior footballers.
*Clare’s Podge Collins. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’S INVOLVEMENT in the 2023 All-Ireland SFC drew to a close on Saturday evening in Longford with a gallant first half showing from Colm Collins’ men coming undone in the third quarter.
*Podge Collins in action for Clare. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’S SENIOR footballers will make the journey to Pearse Park in Longford for their final outing of the year.
*Jamie Malone. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’S SENIOR footballers went narrowly down to Monaghan in Round 2 of the All-Ireland Football series at a sun-drenched Clones last Sunday. However, this was only part of the full story.
*Clare manager, Colm Collins. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill “One thing we said after the Donegal game was that whatever happened today there was going to be a serious performance and we did do that but just came up a little short”.
*Clare’s Daniel Walsh. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Despite producing one of their best performances of the season, Clare had to give best to Monaghan in Clones on Sunday afternoon.