*Clare’s Darragh Bohannon. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’s senior footballers will either be facing off with the Ulster champions, Tyrone and Cork or the losers of the Leinster final, Monaghan and Meath in the All-Ireland SFC.
*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.
CLARE’s senior footballers will contest back to back Munster finals for the first time since 1937.
*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.
*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.
*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’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.
*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.
*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.
*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.