*Cathal O’Connor’s absence in the middle of the field was telling in the dying moments. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill IN HIS FIRST column of 2023, Ger Keane analyses how Clare’s footballers let a six point lead slip against Kildare to fall to back to back defeats in the Allianz National Football League.
*Captain Eoin Cleary in possession for Clare. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’S SENIOR FOOTBALLERS have suffered a successive defeat in the Allianz NFL, letting a six point lead slip.
*Clare senior football manager, Colm Collins. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE FOOTBALL MANAGER, Colm Collins has warned that the current workload on inter-county players is not sustainable.
*Enda Coughlan embraces Eoin Cleary. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE MANAGER, COLM Collins has said he never doubted his side’s ability to pick up an opening round win in the Allianz National Football League, despite not taking the lead until the sixty fifth minute.
*Diarmuid Cahill was Corofin’s chief marksman. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Corofin’s twin Under 21A bid continued unabated in Gurteen on Tuesday evening when knocking out holders Cill Cúil Gaels to book yet another final place.
*Kilmurry Ibrickane’s Daniel Walsh will be part of the UL side. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill EIGHT CLARE FOOTBALLERS will be lining out in this year’s Sigerson Cup.
*Conor Cusack controls the ball with Alan Walsh closing him down, watched by Kieran Leahy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Clare’s wait for a Munster intermediate club football title continues as this year champions, Kildysart bowed out of the provincial campaign at the first hurdle on Saturday.
*Kildysart’s Emmet McMahon. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FRESH FROM the high of winning a first Clare IFC title since 2003, Kildysart will be aiming to bounce forward in the Munster club intermediate football championship.
*Seamus Casey on the attack. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Kildysart finally broke their intermediate final hoodoo when edging out Cooraclare by the bare minimum in a dramatic finale in Cusack Park Ennis on Sunday evening.
*Emmet McMahon kicked 1-04 as Kildysart qualified for the Clare IFC semi-finals. Photograph: Natasha Barton KILDYSART have defeated Shannon Gaels in the Clare IFC quarter-finals for the second time this year, recording a four point winning margin in their fixture.
