*David McInerney & Aaron Gillane stretch for the sliotar. Photograph: Martin Connolly Darach Honan dissects where it went wrong for Clare in Sunday’s eighteen point defeat to neighbours Limerick.
*Tony Kelly’s shot is blocked by Kieran Bennett during their Munster League meeting in January. Photograph: Martin Connolly Their League quarter-final defeat to Waterford in Walsh Park was the warm-up and Sunday is the real deal as Clare aim to get their Munster senior hurling championship campaign off to a winning start.
With fifteen minutes played, Galway led Clare 1-07 to a single point, despite the gap joint manager Donal Moloney always believed his players would come up with the goods. That they did as they forced a draw with the reigning All-Ireland champions and indeed they could have dethroned them. However with time running out it…
An Inagh/Kilnamona combination between David Fitzgerald and Jason McCarthy secured a last-minute draw for Clare in the All-Ireland SHC semi-final. Galway 1-30 Clare 1-30 Venue: Croke Park Five years Clare hurling supporters have been waiting to return to Croke Park and their beloved hurlers gave them a display worth waiting for after gritting out a…
Donal Moloney and Gerry O’Connor have named an unchanged Clare team for Saturday’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final against reigning champions Galway. In the county’s first hurling outing in Croke Park since 2013, management have opted to remain with the same team that defeated Wexford and Limerick and lost to Cork in the provincial final for Saturday’s…
It will be a more meaningful Munster title if Clare can get their hands on it this weekend according to Joint Manager, Gerry O’Connor. “We feel as if we’ve earned the right to play in a Munster final this year and it’s been good to us the format this year because it’s allowed us to…
Now in his tenth year on the Clare senior hurling panel, John Conlon gets the feeling that they are rediscovering the flair that helped them win an All-Ireland title five years ago. As the second oldest member of the panel, Conlon has certainly been setting the example thus far in this year’s championship. His exploits…
Ireland’s Fittest Family is returning for a sixth series and is looking for Clare clans to participate. Since first airing on television screens in 2013, two Clare families have tried to win the €15,000 cash prize and be crowned the fittest family in the country. The McCarthy’s from Inagh finished in second place in 2016…
