The Water Break: Clare footballers avoid Déise banana skin to tee up Kerry rematch
*Clare’s Ronan Lanigan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FOR THE FIRST time in eighty seven years, Clare’s senior footballers will contest successive Munster finals.
Mark Fitzgerald
Clare footballers qualify for Munster final & seal place in All-Ireland series
CLARE’s senior footballers will contest back to back Munster finals for the first time since 1937.
Fitzgerald & Clare aware but not fully fixated on Dungarvan difficulties of the past
*Clare senior football manager, Mark Fitzgerald. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill MARK FITZGERALD begins his first championship campaign as Clare senior football manager this Saturday as the Banner bid to reach a second successive Munster final.
Stephen Ryan among new leaders setting the way for Clare footballers
*Clare goalkeeper, Stephen Ryan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill NOT ALONE has Stephen Ryan’s responsibility as a leader within the Clare senior football panel changed but so too has the role of the county’s first choice goalkeeper on the field.
Garry doubtful for Clare as Brennan & Bohannon return from injury
*Micheál Garry is an injury doubt for Clare. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’S senior footballers will have their strongest selection to choose from so far this year for Saturday’s Munster SFC semi-final.
Clare must play to their potential to reach second successive Munster final
*Clare’s Daniel Walsh. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill For the first time in over a decade Coolmeen’s Cathal O’Connor won’t be travelling to Fraher Field in Dungarvan on this Saturday as a member of the Clare senior football panel.
Away semi-final for Clare senior footballers
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’s senior footballers will be on the road for the Munster semi-final after a surprise result over the weekend.
Lanigan looks to the bright side as Clare’s league campaign ends
*Ronan Lanigan brings the ball out of the Clare defence. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill WITHIN THE space of twelve months, Ronan Lanigan has gone from a starting debutant for the Clare senior footballers to one of their main leaders.
‘We didn’t have a go’ – disappointment as ferocious Down keep Clare in Division 3
*Clare’s Dermot Coughlan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE failed “to have a go” when it came to their do or die promotion clash with Down in the final round of the Allianz National Football League.
Clare to stay Down in Division 3 after promotion hopes dashed in Newry
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill PROMOTION hopes for the Clare senior footballers were dashed in Down where they met their toughest opponents of the year to date and fared out second best.
