*Ronan Lanigan reaches highest to claim the ball. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’s senior footballers have kicked off their Division 3 Allianz National League campaign with a hard-fought one point win over Sligo.
*Brian McNamara. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography MARK FITZGERALD has handed a first National Football League start to his midfield pairing of Brian McNamara and Gavin Murray for Sunday’s first round tie with Sligo.
*Cillian Brennan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’s senior footballers will be without newly appointed captain Cillian Brennan for their opening outing in the Allianz National Football League.
*Ciaran Russell is among the players not available for Clare boss Mark Fitzgerald. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill MARK FITZGERALD’s first Allianz National Football League campaign as Clare manager begins in earnest this Sunday when they welcome Sligo to Cusack Park.
*Colm Collins. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill NEVER HAS A MUNSTER quarter-final been as important for Clare’s footballers as this Sunday’s showdown with Cork in Cusack Park.
*Ciaran Downes. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill KILMIHIL’s Ciaran Downes has left the Clare senior football panel.
*Cian O’Dea. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CIAN O’DEA is to miss Clare’s potentially season defining Munster senior football quarter-final against Cork.
*Ciaran Russell. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’s senior footballers time in Division 2 has come to an end, for now, with a fifteen point win over Limerick.
*Brendy Rouine is among the players getting a first start of the 2023 NFL. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill EIGHT CLARE footballers will make their first start of this year’s Allianz National Football League in what will be the county’s last outing in the competition.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Clare’s seven-year stay in Division Two came to an end on Sunday when Kildare saw off Limerick after the Banner men fell to high flying Derry in Owenbeg.
