*Colm O’Brien. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill WITH only one victory under their belts in 2024 and that an ultimately fruitless last-ditch attempt to stave off relegation from the Cusack Cup, St Breckan’s will inevitably have a greater emphasis on this Friday’s opening senior championship tie more than most.
*Cratloe’s Cathal McInerney. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill ON SIX occasions in the past twenty years, the Clare senior football title has been retained by the previous year’s winners.
*James Curran. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill IF St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield were floated on the stock market, they would arguably be on every stockbrokers’ radar right now.
*Eoin O’Brien. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill ‘LOVELY OLD MILTOWN’ is the ballad and while St Joseph’s Miltown have age on their side, that brings with it experience and for their cause a winning know-how.
*Doonbeg’s Darragh Burns. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FIVE YEARS have passed since Doonbeg last contested the quarter-finals of the Clare senior football championship, a club with a rich history the Magpies are hoping to take flight in the opening round.
*Cormac Murray and Diarmuid Ryan in action. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLUB hurling and football championships in Clare will proceed without delay.
*Clonlara’s David Fitzgerald in action against Darren O’Brien and Dara Walsh of Éire Óg. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLUB teams across Clare have discovered who they will be facing in this year’s championships.
*Ger Quinlan takes on the role of Ennistymon manager. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FOUR of Clare’s twelve senior football clubs will have new managers this season.
*Wolfe Tones’ Daithí Lohan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill The 2024 Clare intermediate football championship will be run similar to the senior competition.
*Cratloe’s Shane Neville. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CRATLOE AND KILMIHIL are on the road this weekend in the Munster club quarter-finals.
