Tony Kelly returns to Clare team with Peter Duggan listed among subs
*Tony Kelly. Photograph: Martin Connolly TONY KELLY is to make his first appearance of the year for Clare’s senior hurlers when they travel to Offaly on Sunday.
*Tony Kelly. Photograph: Martin Connolly TONY KELLY is to make his first appearance of the year for Clare’s senior hurlers when they travel to Offaly on Sunday.
*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.
*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.
*Conall Ó hÁiniféin distributes a handpass. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Éire Óg’s hopes of a historic first Munster Senior Club Final ultimately proved a step too far when outflanked by clinical hosts St Finbarr’s on Sunday afternoon.
*Clarecastle’s Cian Broderick. Photograph: Chris Copley A FRESH injection of youth is to be sprinkled to the Clare senior hurling panel with manager Brian Lohan making new additions to his squad for 2022.
*Paidi Fitzpatrick claims the sliotar and looks for a free. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Knocking out the “standard bearers” of the Clare senior hurling championship will strengthen Éire Óg’s bid for honours.
*Éire Óg’s Darren O’Brien gets away from Cillian Fennessy. Photograph: Raymond O’Mahony Feakle, Ballyea and Éire Óg have secured their spots in the quarter-finals of the Clare SHC.