The Clare Champion Clare news, sport, entertainment and local notes
Pick up this weeks Clare Champion for extensive previews of all the upcoming action in the Senior, Intermediate and Junior Football Club Championships. Leading forces in the first wave of revolution at the backend of the noughties, Cratloe and Clonlara’s 2024 renaissance was not only long overdue and fully merited but also potentially the touchpaper for a fresh tide of senior championship dream-makers. After all, it was Clonlara (2008) and Cratloe (2009) that ended the long held dominance of the traditional clubs and breathed new life into the Canon Hamilton race, with dual force Cratloe doing likewise in football when securing historic back-to-back Jack Daly crowns in 2013 and ’14, the latter a senior hurling and football double. It took five finals and as many semi-final exits to finally get back into the winners enclosure, with Cathal McInerney’s pivotal goal finally turning the tide in Cratloe’s favour to bridge a seemingly interminable nine year gap to their last senior title. …
Read More »