*Conor Cleary. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill JOHN CONLON, CONOR Cleary and David McInerney have all been named to start in Clare’s team to take on Kilkenny in the All-Ireland senior hurling final.
*Clare’s John Conlon. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill HOPES ARE RISING on the injury front for Clare’s senior hurlers ahead of Sunday’s All-Ireland senior hurling semi-final versus Kilkenny.
*Seadna Morey. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill SEADNA MOREY is in line for a starting role for the first time in this year’s championship.
*David McInerney. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill This week’s clash should have a knockout feel. While Cork will get two bites of the cherry against Clare and Limerick, they will have targeted getting a result in Ennis.
*Aidan McCarthy has recovered from injury. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill AIDAN MCCARTHY returns to the Clare senior hurling side for Sunday’s showdown with Cork.
Mark Rodgers gets away from Conor Prunty. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FACING CORK in Ennis this weekend is a knockout tie, Clare forward Mark Rodgers maintained.
*Tony Kelly. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill TONY KELLY was back on song and hitting the frees as Clare recorded their second win of this year’s Munster senior hurling championship.
*Shane O’Donnell dinks past Austin Gleeson. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Clare never needed to raise much of a gallop to brush aside a dysfunctional Waterford team, the Déise’s approach to the game was simply baffling.
*John Conlon holds off Graeme Mulcahy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Unlike the players, I was mentally scarred by our visit to the Gaelic Grounds in 2019. That day, after a disappointing defeat to Tipperary in the previous round, Clare were beaten all ends up to the delight of the baying Limerick crowd.
*David McInerney and Conor Cleary in action for Clare. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’S SENIOR HURLERS have roared back into the championship by defeating All-Ireland champions Limerick in their own back yard.
