Rouine back for Clare as management make one change for Louth tie
*Cillian Rouine. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CILLIAN ROUINE returns to the starting team of the Clare senior footballers for Sunday’s showdown with Louth.
*Cillian Rouine. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CILLIAN ROUINE returns to the starting team of the Clare senior footballers for Sunday’s showdown with Louth.
*Daniel Walsh. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill IT WAS an improved display from Clare’s senior footballers but not enough to cause an upset against Monaghan, Colm Shalvey rates the Banner performances.
*Emmet McMahon in action against Seán O’Shea of Kerry in the 2024 Munster final. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. THOUGH many of his teaching colleagues and former college mates are making the most of the Easter holidays, Clare footballer Emmet McMahon is content to confine his travels to Cusack Park as the county enters the championship arena.
*Rory McMahon. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. RORY MCMAHON is set to make his first starting appearance for the Clare senior footballers as they make the trip to Sligo.
*Rory McMahon holds off Diarmuid Ryan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill AN ALL-ROUND better balanced Kildysart upset the odds when recording a fully merited win over a hotly tipped Cratloe in this round 2 TUS senior football championship tie on Saturday evening.
*David Fitzgerald, Sean Rouine and Liam Cotter swarm Oisin Coyle. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill BEATEN FINALISTS last season Ennistymon have commenced their 2023 championship bid on a winning note.
*Shannon Gaels midfielder, Darragh Bohannon. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography AN APPEAL has been lodged by Shannon Gaels following their exit from the Clare IFC.
The fact that Kildysart have lost out at the concluding stages of the intermediate football championship on a number of occasions in modern times isn’t a driving force this year as they look ahead to Saturday’s final in which they will face Corofin.
It’s his first year on the Kildysart intermediate panel but Emmet McMahon is well aware of the heartbreak suffered by the club on big days.