*Clare captain, Tony Kelly. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE and Tipperary’s sixty first championship meeting is do or die as Saturday becomes a defining one so far as the 2025 season is concerned for both camps with some positive news emanating from the Banner camp in advance of the tie.
*Father and son, Dermot Coughlan. CLARE’s football cause has been well served by the Coughlan family who will once more play a central role on and off the field for Sunday’s Munster senior football final.
*Clare’s David Reidy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. WATERFORD’s fifth win in the Munster SHC since 2020 has come at the expense of Clare’s senior hurlers.
*Clare manager, Brian Lohan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. COMPOSURE and an awful lot of intelligence saw Clare’s lift their game in the second half of Sunday’s Munster SHC first round to secure a draw with Cork, manager Brian Lohan has said.
*Clare’s contingent of Tony Kelly, Patrick Crotty, Brian Lohan, Aidan McCarthy & Mark Rodgers. LEAGUE CHAMPIONS in 2024 to relegation to the second tier following the 2025 campaign represents a dramatic turnaround in fortunes for Clare’s senior hurlers.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill IT WAS always going to be Clare’s final league outing of 2025 but Saturday’s one point loss to Tipperary meant Brian Lohan’s side finish bottom of the table, Enda Treacy rates the performances of the Banner hurlers following their fifth loss of 2025.
*Conor Cleary. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CONOR CLEARY makes his first start of the year for Clare’s senior hurlers as they welcome Cork to Ennis.
*Gordon Kelly gets away from Shane Hickey. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill A MONTH of a break between games in the Clare SFC managed to zap the momentum of St Joseph’s Miltown as they were eliminated in the quarter-finals.
*John Conlon is among the Clare nominations. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill 14 Clare hurlers have been nominated for All Star awards off the back of a season which saw Brian Lohan’s side crowned All-Ireland SHC champions.
*Mark Rodgers. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill SCARIFF captain, Mark Rodgers is a major injury doubt ahead of this weekend’s TUS Clare SHC quarter-finals while his county teammate Conor Cleary has undergone a shoulder operation.
