‘I would play on for eternity if I could’ – Gordon Kelly calls time on Clare career
Clare’s most experienced footballer, Gordon Kelly has called time on his fifteen year inter-county career.
Clare’s most experienced footballer, Gordon Kelly has called time on his fifteen year inter-county career.
Cratloe deservedly advanced to their fifth consecutive Senior Football Championship Semi-Final after a powerful finish saw them produce a dramatic seven point turnaround to end St Joseph’s Miltown’s two year reign in Cusack Park on Sunday evening.
With Kilmurry Ibrickane, Lissycasey and St Breckan’s safely into the final four of the senior football championship, the semi-final line-up will be completed this weekend as four teams vie for just one solitary spot in in a two match blitz, writes Eoin Brennan
St Josephs Miltown’s hopes of a third Clare senior football title in a row are alive and well.
Winners of the title for the past two years, St Josephs Miltown head into the 2020 campaign hoping to retain the Jack Daly cup.
*Munster SFC winning captain of 1992, Francis McInerney Clare’s greatest senior football team of the past three decades has been picked.
Voting for Clare’s greatest senior football team (1990 – 2020) continues with attention now turning to defence.
*Gavin Cooney. Photograph: Raymond O’Mahony Clare’s footballers picked up their first win of this season’s McGrath Cup in what was their final outing of the competition.
*Eoin Cleary takes on Daniel Walsh. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill For Eoin Cleary, the turning point with the current St Josephs Miltown crop goes back to November 2013.
*Darragh McDonagh. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill During St Josephs Miltown’s final finish of five points in succession to claim their fifteenth ever Clare SFC title, Darragh McDonagh was among those leading the crusade.