Eoin Cleary and Jamie Stack at the final whistle. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. A FIRST Cusack Park win under Paul Madden has given Clare’s footballers fresh impetus for Saturday’s derby encounter with Limerick.
*Brendy Rouine in action for Clare. Photograph: Ruth Griffin./ CLARE’S National Football League campaign is finally off the ground after they picked up a vital two points at the expense of Fermanagh.
*Dermot Coughlan is expected to revert back to the half-forward line this weekend. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE’s senior footballers are back in action this weekend knowing a win is essential to revitalise their Division 3 campaign in the Allianz National Football League.
*Aaron Fitzgerald with the Jack Daly and Canon Hamilton. Photograph: Ruth Griffin. ÉIRE ÓG have won the senior championship double after scoring 1-8 without reply to shake off the challenge of a gutsy St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield to win a fourth Clare SFC in five seasons.
*Éire Óg’s Ikem Ugwueru. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CHASING THAT winning feeling has Ikem Ugwueru primed for battle as Éire Óg look to win a fourth Clare SFC in five seasons.
*Éire Óg celebrate after winning the Cusack Cup. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. ÉIRE Óg won the Cusack Cup on Sunday afternoon but despite the final score margin of fourteen points, they were extremely fortunate to emerge with the honours, upping the ante in extra time.
*Mark McInerney takes on Daire Nally. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE’s senior footballers are out of the All-Ireland championship, a fourth successive loss ending their campaign for 2025.
*Ikem Ugwueru. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. AN ELEVEN point loss to Kerry in the Munster final is “not the end of the road” for Clare’s senior footballers, Ikem Ugwueru has said.
*Keelan Sexton takes on Tony Brosnan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE have been comprehensively beaten by Kerry in the Munster senior football final.
INJURY has ruled out Clare wing forward Ciaran Downes for Sunday’s Munster SFC final.