Éire Óg crowned county football champions
*Gavin Cooney celebrates. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography ÉIRE ÓG are Clare SFC champions for the third time in four years after overcoming Kilmurry Ibrickane.
*Gavin Cooney celebrates. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography ÉIRE ÓG are Clare SFC champions for the third time in four years after overcoming Kilmurry Ibrickane.
CATHAL MCInerney is five points clear of Keelan Sexton in the race to win the MD MyClubShop.ie / The Clare Echo top scorer award in this year’s Clare senior football championship.
*Daryn Callinan and Keelan Sexton celebrate. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. KILMURRY IBRICKANE are back in the TUS Clare SFC final for the first time since 2021 after ending Cratloe’s reign as county champions.
KILMURRY IBRICKANE had an unexpectedly facile eleven point win over neighbours and rivals St Joseph’s Miltown to become the first of four semi-finalists in the Clare SFC.
*Dermot Coughlan in action with Connor Meaney. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill NOT THAT they were out of the race but Kilmurry Ibrickane are certainly back in contention for the Clare SFC after picking up their first win of the championship at Lissycasey’s expense.
*Éire Óg’s Darren O’Neill. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill ÉIRE ÓG left West Clare with two points on the board and deserving victors against a fancied Kilmurry Ibrickane on Friday evening.
*Kilmurry Ibrickane captain, Dermot Coughlan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill EXPECTATION is always high in Kilmurry Ibrickane and after a quarter-final exit last season, the Bricks are in place to rectify this.
*Ciaran Russell is among the players not available for Clare boss Mark Fitzgerald. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill MARK FITZGERALD’s first Allianz National Football League campaign as Clare manager begins in earnest this Sunday when they welcome Sligo to Cusack Park.
*Podge Collins. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill PODGE COLLINS has announced his retirement from inter-county football.
*Tommy Rooney and Daniel Walsh compete in the air. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CRATLOE are the first club to seal their place in the semi-finals of the Clare senior football championship for this year.