*Clare’s Cillian Rouine offloads possession. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. DIVISION 3 awaits Clare’s senior footballers for the third successive season despite their five point win over Offaly in the final round, Páraic McMahon rates the performances of the twenty players in saffron and blue to feature in this outing.
*Dermot Coughlan is challenged. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE’s senior footballers will be playing in Division 3 for a third season in succession, their five point win over Offaly was not sufficient to see them promoted to the second tier.
*Ikem Ugwueru in action for Clare. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill THERE are “no egos and agendas” within the Clare senior football panel according to new coach Peter Tormey.
*Cillian Rouine. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill PETER KEANE has named an unchanged Clare team as he goes in search of his first Allianz National Football League win.
*Brendy Rouine catches the ball. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill ENNISTYMON claimed the last of the semi-final places in the TUS Clare SFC with a gritty win over North Clare rivals St Breckan’s.
*Jamie Moylan goes to ground. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CHAMPIONS Cratloe and Ennistymon are both through to the quarter-finals of the TUS Clare SFC after they played out an entertaining draw on Sunday afternoon.
*Ciaran McMahon. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FOREST GUMP’s well-trotted out line, “life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get” is applicable when it comes to Ennistymon’s senior footballers.
*Manus Doherty’s first half goal chance is stopped. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill DONEGAL have dumped Clare out of the All-Ireland SFC as the Ulster champions dished out a hammering on Saturday afternoon.
*Emmet McMahon is one of six members of the Clare team to have started in last year’s game. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FOR THE SECOND year in a row, Clare and Donegal will do battle in the All-Ireland SFC.
*Clare’s Dermot Coughlan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’s senior footballers suffered a successive defeat in the All-Ireland SFC, losing out to Tyrone by a margin of fourteen points.
