Gavin Cooney. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill A ONE point win has kept Éire Óg in the championship and tees up an exciting final round in Group 4 of the Clare SHC.A ONE point win has kept Éire Óg in the championship and tees up an exciting final round in Group 4 of the Clare SHC.
*Ciaran Russell. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. HISTORY MAY beckon for Éire Óg but for now everyone involved with their senior footballs is paying little credence to the annals of time.
*Gavin Cooney. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill TWO-TIME CLARE SFC winner, Gavin Cooney has left the county senior football panel.
*Clare’s Cian O’Dea is challenged. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill A GLORIOUS CHANCE to start the All-Ireland SFC on a high resulted in a lowpoint of Colm Collins’ tenure as discussed in our latest episode of The Water Break.
*Cian O’Dea. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’S SENIOR footballers will have their first run-out since the disappointing Munster final defeat to Kerry when they welcome Donegal to Ennis.
*Dara Moynihan takes on Darren O’Neill. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill HOPES OF A 1992 repeat quickly vanished when Kerry had three goals tucked away by half-time, the latest episode of The Water Break attempts to pick up the pieces on where it went wrong for Clare’s footballers.
*Podge Collins on the attack for Clare. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill HE SACRIFICED his honeymoon to line out with Clare’s senior footballers as they booked their passage to the Munster final and All-Ireland SFC and Podge Collins said it was worth it to qualify for a first provincial decider with the county’s footballers.
*Eoin Cleary. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE WILL EMBRACE the extra pressure that comes with Sunday’s Munster senior football quarter-final, captain Eoin Cleary has said.
*Jamie Malone is expected to move to the half-back line in the absence of Cian O’Dea. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill SELECTIONS around the middle third are among the main selection headaches for Colm Collins and his management team for Sunday’s Munster SFC quarter-final with Cork.
*The Éire Óg management team: Rory O’Brien, Seanie Buckley, Tom Russell, Paul Madden, Peter Cosgrove and Shane Daniels. Photograph: John Mangan AFTER CLAIMING the Jack Daly for the second year in a row, Éire Óg had every reason to celebrate when they held their victory social at The Temple Gate Hotel.
