Jonathan Keane celebrates winning the South of Ireland Men’s Amateur Open Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/Ben Brady AS the 2025 sporting seasons draws to a close, the keenly contested and eagerly awaited Clare Echo sporting awards return.
*Outgoing Clare GAA Head of Operations, Deirdre Murphy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill OUTGOING Head of Operations with Clare GAA, Deirdre Murphy has flagged that a further €1.5m may need to be sourced to complete planned works at Caherlohan and felt efforts by the county senior hurlers on fundraising and touring Clare with the Liam MacCarthy could …
*Peter Keane. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. PETER KEANE “took a long time to decide that Killorglin is a long way from Caherlohan,” a West Clare delegate remarked when criticising the timing of the Kerry man’s resignation as Clare senior football manager.
*Clare in 2026 will have a fourth manager of the senior footballers in as many years. PETER KEANE’s tenure as Clare senior football manager ended officially on Sunday, but it should have come to a halt long before then.
PETER KEANE has stepped down as manager of the Clare senior footballers.
*Clare senior football manager, Peter Keane. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE senior football manager Peter Keane is to take time before considering if he will commit to the county for a second season.
*Peter Keane. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. ATTEMPTS to seed Kerry and Cork on opposite sides of the Munster senior football championship has been criticised as “very unfair” by Clare manager Peter Keane.
*Alan Sweeney battles to win the ball. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. LITTLE mistakes came at a big price for Clare’s senior footballers in their three point loss to Louth, manager Peter Keane said.
*Stephen Ryan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill STEPHEN Ryan has returned to Clare’s senior football panel ahead of Sunday’s crunch All-Ireland SFC tie with Louth.
*Peter Keane. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE cannot afford to be missing players, manager Peter Keane said following their nine point loss to Monaghan.