*Crusheen veteran Gerry O’Grady is among the players now entitled to automatic regrading. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill That a maximum of five players shall be regraded from one grade of competition to another in any one year is to continue for 2024.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FORMER Kerry minor football manager, James Costello has joined the management of the Clare senior footballers.
*Ballyea’s James Murphy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Bye-law 7 in Clare GAA rules which deals with the issue of isolated players was the subject of a lively debate at the County GAA convention.
*Peter Duggan in action for Clare in the All-Ireland semi-final. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Clare GAA had a surplus of €270,186 for 2023, the annual convention of the association was informed this week. This was down from €614,066 in 2022.
*Photograph: Joe Buckley 33 percent of actions from the five-year Clare GAA strategic plan are now considered complete, the County Board Chairman has outlined.
*Podge Collins. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill PODGE COLLINS has announced his retirement from inter-county football.
*Robert Frost. Photograph: John Mangan IN THE ONLY contest for a position on the Executive of Clare GAA, Robert Frost defeated the sitting Michael O’Neill to become Central Council delegate.
*Paddy Smyth. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Clare GAA will have a new Child Welfare officer in 2024 while both Paddy Smyth and Ambrose Heagney were returned to their roles.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill “Clare camogie continues to progress and such progress is the result of the hard work and dedication of so many people”.
*Clare’s victorious All-Ireland junior camogie team celebrate. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE camogie has recorded its highest ever membership.