*Clare senior football manager, Peter Keane. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. ATTACKING football which brings an element of entertainment is how they like to play gaelic football in Clare according to senior manager Peter Keane.
*Clare’s contingent of Dermot Coughlan, Ciaran Downes, Peter Keane, Keelan Sexton & Ikem Ugwueru. CHAMPIONSHIP is just a week away, the early season silverware has been handed out in the National Leagues, Clare were empty-handed in this regard but The Clare Echo’s Head of News & Sport, Páraic McMahon examines what can we learn from …
*Clare manager, Peter Keane. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE’s senior footballers are disappointed to have missed out on promotion to Division 2 especially after beating the two teams making the jump to the second tier.
*Ronan Lanigan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill RONAN LANIGAN and Dermot Coughlan will make their first starts of the year for the Clare senior footballers in their crunch final round tie against Offaly on Sunday.
*Ikem Ugwueru in possession. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’s senior footballers staged a dramatic comeback to defeat Laois by four points and more importantly keep their bid for promotion on track.
Irish Officer, Marcus Ó Conaire, assisting Cllr Donal Lyons (IND) with a Gaeilge translation before the start of Galway City Council’s first fully bilingual meeting. Photograph: Cormac MacMahon HISTORY WAS made on Monday when Galway City Council hosted a fully bilingual meeting.
Aaron Griffin carries the ball beyond Daniel Lyons on the way to getting Clare’s first goal. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE senior football manager Peter Keane was frustrated with big decisions in their two point loss to Sligo but readily admitted their performance was too flat.
*Eoin Cleary is tackled. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. SLIGO issued a setback to Clare’s hopes of securing promotion to Division 2 of the National Football League by claiming their first win which was the second loss of Peter Keane’s tenure.
*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.
*Dermot Coughlan in action for Clare. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE’s third successive win in the National Football League sets them up for a real push at promotion to the second tier and they’ve been strengthened in their cause by the return of Dermot Coughlan.
