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This week’s Clare Champion includes a very special, 16-page souvenir supplement to mark Clare’s success in the All-Ireland Hurling Final. In this supplement we talk to Tony Kelly, Brian Lohan, Shane O’Donnell, John Conlon, Conor Cleary, Cathal Malone, Eibhear Quilligan, Brendan Bugler, Pat O’Donnell, Tommy Corbett, Deirdre Murphy, Davy Fitzgerald and many more. We also have all the colour from before, during and after the game, the excitement from the homecoming events on Monday night and a souvenir team poster. This collector’s item is in the shops now. Below, Owen Ryan looks back at a magical victory for Clare supporters. THE brief for this article was to write 1,000 words of a supporter’s diary about last Sunday, but of course that’s not where it should start. A more apt beginning is when the referee’s final whistle sounded on July 6, and a famous Clare victory over Kilkenny, which had looked so unlikely for so much of the game, was confirmed. …

This week’s Clare Champion includes a very special, 16-page souvenir supplement to mark Clare’s success in the All-Ireland Hurling Final. In this supplement we talk to Tony Kelly, Brian Lohan, Shane O’Donnell, John Conlon, Conor Cleary, Cathal Malone, Eibhear Quilligan, Brendan Bugler, Pat O’Donnell, Tommy Corbett, Deirdre Murphy, Davy Fitzgerald and many more. We also have all the colour from before, during and after the game, the excitement from the homecoming events on Monday night and a souvenir team poster. This collector’s item is in the shops now. Below, Dan Danaher chats to Brendan Bugler. Clare selector, Brendan Bugler believes the hurt of losing three Munster finals drove the team to scale new heights in extra time to help them edge Cork after a thrilling All-Ireland SHC decider. Speaking to The Clare Champion, the Whitegate clubman said sometimes a team learns more from a defeat and recalled the Clare management learned a lot from losing to Limerick in the Munster …

This week’s Clare Champion includes a very special, 16-page souvenir supplement to mark Clare’s success in the All-Ireland Hurling Final. In this supplement we talk to Tony Kelly, Brian Lohan, Shane O’Donnell, John Conlon, Conor Cleary, Cathal Malone, Eibhear Quilligan, Brendan Bugler, Pat O’Donnell, Tommy Corbett, Deirdre Murphy, Davy Fitzgerald and many more. We also have all the colour from before, during and after the game, the excitement from the homecoming events on Monday night and a souvenir team poster. This collector’s item is in the shops now. Below, Derek Dormer chats to Clare goalkeeper, Eibhear Quilligan. The man who dons the number one jersey for the Banner Eibhear Quilligan is soaking in the atmosphere in the Fairgreen and feels all the hard work and sacrifice it has taken to get here was definitely worth it. The moment referee Johnny Murphy blew his full time whistle is one that will stay with the Feakle native for the rest of his …

One West Clare GAA fan will be watching Sunday’s big match just 10 kilometres from the frontline of the war in Ukraine. Doonbeg man, Oran McInerney, is a final year medical student and currently working for Frontline Medics at a location in the east of Ukraine. The international charity carries out lifesaving medical evacuations of injured soldiers near the front line of conflict zones all over the world. Oran’s work is incredibly dangerous and involves treating and then transporting injured soldiers to the nearest stabilisation point, or field hospital, where they are often operated on by surgeons. This Sunday, Oran will be working a 24 hour shift on the frontline, but he is hopeful of keeping tabs on the big match. “On Sunday I’ll be on a twenty four hour shift and will try my best to catch the game. Not sure will GaaGo work in Ukraine, but you can always hope,” he told The Clare Champion. “If the internet …

Are you Clare’s biggest hurling fan? Do you have what it takes to rival Kildysart superfan, John Joe Costello, when it comes to the amount of saffron and blue that you have on your house, your car or your clothes? As All Ireland excitement reaches fever pitch, The Clare Champion wants to help turn social media saffron and blue this weekend. If you have gone that extra mile while decorating your house or anything else, tag The Clare Champion or send us a message through any of our social media platforms and we will share your efforts with the rest of the county. Hon the Banner!

WHEN the final whistle blew last Saturday, Andy Moloney decided he was going to take on a major challenge, to walk from Shannon to Dublin for the All Ireland Final. Now based in Edinburgh, Andy will be taking on the challenge to raise funds for autism. “I’m going to start it on Wednesday, July 17, it’ll be Shannon to Nenagh on day one. I’ll finish in Dublin on the Saturday, day two is Nenagh to Mountrath, then it’s Mountrath to Portlaoise and Portlaoise to Croke Park,” he says. “There will be about ten to 12 hours of walking each day, and I should be there at around 5pm on the Saturday.” While the walk was on his mind prior to Saturday’s victory, it wouldn’t have happened if Kilkenny had won. “I had the idea, I was saying to family and friends that I’d love to do another fundraiser, and that a walk to Croke Park would be interesting,” he said. …

On the eve of Clare’s first All-Ireland Intermediate Final in seven years, the Lenihan family have unquestionably been hugely influential in the Banner’s passage back to the LGFA’s most prestigious annual day. It essentially came down to answering the county’s call as Sean Lenihan admirably stepped up to assume the vacant Chairperson’s position at short notice ahead of the 2021 season while later in the same year, his daughter Amy, a notable forward for her club St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield, was asked by new manager Evan Talty to cover as sub goalkeeper despite having never played in that position before. Both have only gone from strength to strength in their respective roles ever since as Sean is now in his third year as Clare’s administrative figurehead while Amy has made the custodian’s position her own since last season. However, while their impacts have emanated from contrasting on and off the field approaches, their goal is certainly common to both as getting …

There was almost a sense of inevitability when Kildare eventually overcame chief Leinster rivals Wexford to cement their place against Clare in the All-Ireland Intermediate Ladies Football Final in Croke Park this Sunday. After all, the hand of fate had thrown up a potential revenge mission for the Banner who had agonisingly missed their chance at intermediate glory in the 2016 decider against the Lilywhites. More than that though, having been contentiously edged out twice by Kildare already in 2023 alone including an extra-time National League Division 3 Final reverse back in April, it’s easy to see why Clare are hell bent on redressing the balance. However, the final ingredient of Clare’s date with destiny is the fact that Clare Manager Wayne Freeman and his immediate backroom team of Lee Hunt and Brian Willis are all Kildare natives, albeit that their residency permits could be in jeopardy as the banter levels have intensified over the past three weeks. “I’ve been …