*Clare gather in a huddle before their meeting with Wexford in the Allianz National Hurling League. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. BRIAN LOHAN and his management team have let four players go from the Clare squad in the middle of the Allianz National Hurling League.
*Liam Corry surrounded by Ian Galvin and John Conlon. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill ÉIRE ÓG have edged closer to the Clare SHC quarter-finals after overcoming Clonlara in the second round of the championship.
*Oisin O’Donnell returns to the training panel. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FIFTEEN hurlers have been added to Clare’s senior training panel with manager Brian Lohan to finalise his panel at the end of January, prior to the start of the Allianz Natonal Hurling League.
*Páraic O’Loughlin clears his lines. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill EIGHT YEARS on from making his senior debut, Páraic O’Loughlin has found his home on the Clonlara senior hurling team.
*Cian Moriarty lifts Colm O’Meara into the air. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill WHEN IT COMES to eating the turkey on Christmas Day, Clonlara’s hurlers wanted to be able to say they give it everything in the Munster club semi-final and they did, manager Donal Madden maintained.
*Diarmuid Stritch who landed the winning score for Clonlara. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLONLARA made history on Sunday afternoon qualifying for the Munster senior club final for the first time.
*Áine O’Loughlin. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill ÁINE O’Loughlin never had any doubt but that she was going to go for goal when Truagh/Clonlara were awarded a 20m free in the third minute of ‘added time’ in Saturday’s Clare senior camogie final.
*Dylan McMahon clears his lines. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill ON THEIR way to winning a third-ever Clare SHC title, Clonlara were backboned by a crop of five players who five years previously guided the club to their first-ever Minor A title.
*Micheál O’Loughlin. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill THERE’S SOMETHING special about county finals and it was epitomised by Micheál O’Loughlin, Clonlara’s man of the match who hit 2-9 to send them on their way to a third senior title.
*Dylan McMahon. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill While Sunday will be his first experience of a senior championship decider, Dylan McMahon has played for Clonlara on county final day before.
