Interviews ongoing for Clare football manager with appointment to be made within two weeks
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CANDIDATES have been shortlisted with interviews ongoing to appoint a new Clare senior football manager.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CANDIDATES have been shortlisted with interviews ongoing to appoint a new Clare senior football manager.
*Emmet McMahon in action against Kerry’s Sean O’Shea. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE may be one of four counties without a senior football manager for 2025 but efforts to appoint Mark Fitzgerald’s successor cannot be rushed, one of the county’s top footballers has said.
*Work is ongoing to appoint Mark Fitzgerald’s successor as Clare senior football manager. CLARE is one of four counties without a senior inter-county football manager for 2025 with interest in the vacancy growing.
*Mark Fitzgerald. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. MARK FITZGERALD has stepped down as manager of the Clare senior footballers.
*Clare senior football manager, Mark Fitzgerald. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill MARK FITZGERALD begins his first championship campaign as Clare senior football manager this Saturday as the Banner bid to reach a second successive Munster final.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FORMER Kerry minor football manager, James Costello has joined the management of the Clare senior footballers.
*Clare selector, Declan Downes. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill LEGACY. Kerry may have the tradition of the two counties competing in Sunday’s Munster final but there’s a rich legacy among the personnel involved with the Clare cause.
*Darren O’Neill’s half-time introduction was a turning point in the game. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill GER KEANE played a vital role when Clare’s footballers last defeated Cork in the Munster SFC, his quick free teeing up Martin Daly for the match-winning goal, Sunday’s win over the Rebels was equally as dramatic and enthralling he writes.
*Colm Collins. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill NEVER HAS A MUNSTER quarter-final been as important for Clare’s footballers as this Sunday’s showdown with Cork in Cusack Park.
*Kevin Harnett. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill TWO OF CLARE’S most experienced defenders have called time on their inter-county careers.