The Clare Champion Clare news, sport, entertainment and local notes
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. …
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