Patience pays off for modest McInerney
*Sixmilebridge’s Evan McInerney. Photograph: Chris Copley Without question, Evan McInerney was Sixmilebridge’s breakout player of the championship.
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Darach Honan: Clare management need to be brave with selection
*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.
‘There are no more excuses’ for Clare players and management
*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.
Donal never doubted Clare players
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 …
Heroic Clare snatch draw with Galway
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 …
Clare name same team for Galway semi-final
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 …
No switching off for Gerry O’Connor
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 …