*Mark McInerney celebrates scoring a goal for Clare. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FRESH from producing a man of the match display for Clare’s footballers, Mark McInerney dedicated the Munster semi-final win to the late Dylan White.
*Alan Sweeney leads the charge for Clare. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’s senior footballers are through to the Munster final for the third year running after overcoming Tipperary in a drab semi-final.
*Mark McInerney. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill ÉIRE ÓG’s Mark McInerney has been named to make his first start of this year’s Allianz National Football with Ronan Lanigan and Brendy Rouine listed among the subs for the first time in 2025.
*Clare’s senior footballers stand for the national anthem. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE football manager Peter Keane has said he was more focused on ensuring relegation to Division 4 was not a worry for his side rather than keeping a promotion to the second tier alive in advance of their latest victory.
*Éire Óg’s Manus Doherty. Photograph: Mike Brennan ANOTHER frustrating provincial exit for Éire Óg who were expertly kept at arm’s length by Loughmore-Castleiney to fall at the Munster Semi-Final stage for a third time in four seasons.
*Darren O’Brien leads the charge for Éire Óg. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill ÉIRE ÓG ran out fourteen point winners over Ennistymon in an incredibly drab semi-final encounter to tee up a final showdown with Kilmurry Ibrickane.
*Éire Óg’s Ronan Lanigan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill REMARKABLY Éire Óg last lost a game in the Clare SFC in 2021 but they are not the holders of the Jack Daly.
*Emmet McMahon is one of six members of the Clare team to have started in last year’s game. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FOR THE SECOND year in a row, Clare and Donegal will do battle in the All-Ireland SFC.
*Daniel Walsh. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE senior football manager Mark Fitzgerald has made one change in personnel to the starting fifteen for Sunday’s Munster final.
*Mark McInerney lines up a shot. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE holding their place in the race to win the Sam Maguire is “massive”, corner forward Mark McInerney has said.