*Daniel Walsh. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill IT WAS an improved display from Clare’s senior footballers but not enough to cause an upset against Monaghan, Colm Shalvey rates the Banner performances.
*Clare’s Dermot Coughlan & Manus Doherty. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’s senior footballers fell to successive defeats with an improved first half showing counting for little as they lost by nine points to Monaghan.
*Francis McInerney. FRANCIS McInerney is the only living Clare man to have captained the county to glory in the Munster senior football championship and he’d only love to have that title taken away from him this weekend.
*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.
*Joe Hayes. ONCE monikered ‘Mr Clare football’ by fellow county stalwart Gary Brennan, former goalkeeper Joe Hayes, who donned the number 1 jersey for 13 years at inter-county senior level, opens a new chapter in a first managerial role with the Clare minors who commence their Munster Championship campaign at home to Limerick on Monday …
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*Clare manager, Peter Keane. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE’s senior footballers are disappointed to have missed out on promotion to Division 2 especially after beating the two teams making the jump to the second tier.
*Ronan Lanigan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill RONAN LANIGAN and Dermot Coughlan will make their first starts of the year for the Clare senior footballers in their crunch final round tie against Offaly on Sunday.
Aaron Griffin carries the ball beyond Daniel Lyons on the way to getting Clare’s first goal. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE senior football manager Peter Keane was frustrated with big decisions in their two point loss to Sligo but readily admitted their performance was too flat.
*Dermot Coughlan in action for Clare. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE’s third successive win in the National Football League sets them up for a real push at promotion to the second tier and they’ve been strengthened in their cause by the return of Dermot Coughlan.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE ended Kildare’s unbeaten run in Division 3 of the Allianz National Football League and more importantly picked up two points to keep their chances of promotion alive.
