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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, Derek Dormer chats to Davy Fitz. The man who led Clare to their last All Ireland title in 2013 is over the moon and thoroughly enjoyed the day supporting his beloved County with his family. Davy, who highlighted Cork’s puck-out strategy against Limerick as a key factor in their semi-final success, feels Clare got their tactics spot on and all players and management deserve huge credit. “Firstly it was just an …

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 Cathal Malone. Moments after being introduced to the almost 40,000 Banner supporters in the Fair Green midfielder Cathal Malone took time out to speak exclusively to the Clare Champion about the match itself and what the victory means to everybody. “It’s absolutely incredible, a feeling that I’ve honestly never experienced anything like it before and one that will stay with me forever. I joined the panel in …

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, Eoin Brennan chats to Conor Cleary. A recurrence of last year’s dislocated shoulder injury ensured that Conor Cleary would have to chew his nails on the sidelines for extra-time just like the thousands of Banner supporters in Croke Park. It was exceeding tense by that stage but despite a very auspicious treatment table of National League winning captain Cleary, Shane O’Donnell, Diarmuid Ryan and Mark Rodgers, a resilient and reshuffled pack …

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, Eoin Brennan chats to Shane O’Donnell. Shane O’Donnell’s fairytale All-Ireland Final return nearly didn’t happen on Sunday after suffering a hamstring tear only five days before. Having capped off his senior debut year at a 19 year old by lowering the Rebels in spectacular fashion with 3-3, clear National Player of the Year favourite O’Donnell was on the precipice of missing the decider, having been instrumental in getting the coiunty there. …

Clare 3-29 Cork 1-34 (AET) It was a game for the ages in 2013, and so it was once more 11 years on, that needed extra-time to separate the sides as a rampant Clare were reeled in by Cork’s determination and their own nerves in normal time before they finally found the answers in extra-time. It was a victory built on never-say-die and courage and the sorcery of Tony Kelly and the genius of Shane O’Donnell, with a supporting cast of giants that included heroes all over the field, like other veterans of 2013 such as John Conlon and David McInerney, while the young turks that have come through the ranks under Brian Lohan’s watch were huge too. In the end it was points by Kelly, Aidan McCarthy and Shane Meehan that were enough to stave a late rally via two Patrick Horgan frees as they edged home to a one-point victory that carried Clare to a fifth All-Ireland title. …

THE intensity and work rate that Galway will need to beat Kilkenny on Sunday must be twice what it was against Tipperary, according to captain, David Collins. The Liam Mellows clubman said the positivity that is in the squad this year has helped him. “If it wasn’t, I would be sitting down and out and would not be playing. The depth in the squad is massive and we need that going forward,” Collins told The Clare Champion. Asked at what stage in their semi-final against Tipperary did he feel that it would be their day, he replied, “When I saw Johnny Glynn hooking Maher and Mannion picking the ball up and putting it over the bar, I said ‘this is it, this is our game, we are on the curve’. The work rate and the intensity that the boys kept bringing was superb and we need to keep that going now. “We have kept it going in training and we …

HAVING players from one’s club involved with the county panel on All-Ireland final day heightens the interest within the club, Gort club chairman John Quinn believes but he equally holds the view that being involved in the All-Ireland final means as much to the clubs that don’t have a player on the panel. “Having club members involved creates additional interest and gives a connection with what is going on. It also creates a problem with the distribution of tickets, which is a challenge as well and it’s a nice problem to have. It is a policy in our club that members will be looked after first, in particular working members who are active in the club week in and week out. It would be the right thing to do to distribute the tickets amongst the grassroots of a club.” Aidan Harte and Greg Lally from Gort are part of the Galway senior panel this year, Jack Grealish is a member …

A little over 12 months ago, there were doubts as to whether or not Anthony Cunningham would be given another term in charge of the Galway senior hurlers. They had been knocked out of the All-Ireland race and some supporters were impatient but the St Thomas’ clubman, who had just completed three years in charge, clearly believed in the players. “You always want to stay with a team you believe in and I believed that these guys have talent. We have worked hard in the last three to four years in bringing the standards up. Kilkenny have led that. The work that goes into inter-county teams now and what they do on their own is massive and I am delighted to have had the chance of working with this group,” he said. Looking ahead to Sunday’s date with Kilkenny, he confirmed that the Tribesmen have no injury worries. “We came out of the game the last day [Tipperary] really well. …